Add to ORKGThe history of oral narratives is in the grip of a paradox. The voice of their past telling is no longer evident, and what is evident is no longer oral. Once committed to writing, oral tales become literature, bearing the consequences of this transformation that occurs under specific social, religious, economic, even technical, circumstances.1 The shift from orality to literacy involves thematic, stylistic, and poetic modifications, and although in their new state the tales have a relatively higher degree of stability, they still can offer us glimpses into their performance history
The teaching and research in folklore at the Hebrew University in Israel, as in many American univer...
At a time when folklorists flounder in America, they flourish in Israel. Being under the perennial t...
Most Fabula readers do not have an easy access to Hebrew books, and therefore it would be highly adv...
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folk literature: (a) historical depth, (b) continuous...
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folk literature: (a) historical depth, (b) continuous...
The Jews are a people whose historical roots are in the ancient land of Israel. In this country thei...
In the currently charged world of Israeli public opinion, the publication of this book is a politica...
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folklore: (a) extended history depth, (b) continuous ...
This essay examines evidence for the interplay of memory recall and written technology in ancient Is...
A thematic bibliography has the dual function of research summation and discipline boundary-demarcat...
Folklore and literature are linked concepts, but so far no one theory has satisfactorily explained t...
With a rare flair for erudition, Haim Schwarzbaum repeats his performance in the 1968 volume of Stud...
A portion of the research for this paper was conducted in 2014 with the support of an Arts and Human...
These are the first two books in a projected series of twelve volumes, each of which will include th...
I have argued that Israelite literature includes many oral "registers" reflecting various tastes, fu...
The teaching and research in folklore at the Hebrew University in Israel, as in many American univer...
At a time when folklorists flounder in America, they flourish in Israel. Being under the perennial t...
Most Fabula readers do not have an easy access to Hebrew books, and therefore it would be highly adv...
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folk literature: (a) historical depth, (b) continuous...
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folk literature: (a) historical depth, (b) continuous...
The Jews are a people whose historical roots are in the ancient land of Israel. In this country thei...
In the currently charged world of Israeli public opinion, the publication of this book is a politica...
Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folklore: (a) extended history depth, (b) continuous ...
This essay examines evidence for the interplay of memory recall and written technology in ancient Is...
A thematic bibliography has the dual function of research summation and discipline boundary-demarcat...
Folklore and literature are linked concepts, but so far no one theory has satisfactorily explained t...
With a rare flair for erudition, Haim Schwarzbaum repeats his performance in the 1968 volume of Stud...
A portion of the research for this paper was conducted in 2014 with the support of an Arts and Human...
These are the first two books in a projected series of twelve volumes, each of which will include th...
I have argued that Israelite literature includes many oral "registers" reflecting various tastes, fu...
The teaching and research in folklore at the Hebrew University in Israel, as in many American univer...
At a time when folklorists flounder in America, they flourish in Israel. Being under the perennial t...
Most Fabula readers do not have an easy access to Hebrew books, and therefore it would be highly adv...