Jewish Moroccan folk narratives from Israel / / [edited by] Haya Bar-Itzhak and Aliza Shenhar ; [translated by Miriam Widmann in collaboration with the authors].

• Author: Bar-Itzhak, Haya
• TeilnehmendeR: Shenhar-Alroy, Aliza.; Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah.
• Place / Publishing House: Detroit : : Wayne State University Press,, 1993.; ©1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English; Judeo-Arabic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 pages) :; illustrations

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives focuses on two central elements: textual research to examine the aesthetic qualities of the narrative, their division into genres, the various versions and their parallels, and acculturation in Israel, as well as contextual research to examine the performance art of the narrator and the role of the narrative as a communicative process in the narrating society. The collection includes twenty-one narratives by twelve storytellers; an account of the narrators' lives and a commentary have been applied to each. In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations: Folk Art and Material Culture of Moroccan Jews; Introduction; Ḥaviva Dayan; The Patient Wife; Commentary; The Tales of Mother Alaguz; Commentary; Never Trust the Dark Haired Man; Commentary; Mordekhai Malka; The King, the Vizier, and the Clever Jew; Commentary; Freḥa Ḥafutah; Smeda Rmeda; Commentary; My Sister Mass'uda and my Brother Mass'ud; Commentary; Rabbi Ḥanania Portal; The Miracle That Occurred between Purim and Pessah; Commentary; The Birth of the Maharal; Commentary; Rabbi Ḥaim Ben-Atar; Commentary; Yamna Dayan What Is Written in Heaven Cannot Be Wiped OutCommentary; Queen Alfahima; Commentary; Smeda Rmeda Who Was Turned into a Dove; Commentary; The Clever Girl; Commentary; Yoseph Peretz; Who Is Unclean; Commentary; Juliette Megera; The Story of Rabbi Ḥaim Pinto; Commentary; David Seruya; If God Cares for Me, He Will Punch a Hole in the Ceiling and Pour Down Riches; Commentary; Juḥā Sells His House; Commentary; Asher Dayan; Rabbi Abraham Iben Ezra Is Sold into Slavery; Commentary; Sultana Shoshan; The Tailor's Son and the Magic Lantern; Commentary; Ya'acov Edri; The Purim Miracle; Commentary Eliyahu Abu-ḥatzeraNobody Can Escape His Fate; Commentary; Bibliography; Type Index