Dan Ben-Amos, Ph.D., is a professor of folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, the general editor of Indiana University Press's Folklore Series, and the senior editor of Mimekor Yisrael: Folktales of Israel. Dov Noy, Ph.D., is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University, the director of the Hebrew University Folklore Center, a professor of Yiddish folklore at Bar Ilan University, the 1988 recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, and the founder of the Israel Folktale Archives.

"What a gift it is! There is no denying the scope, fluidity, and uniqueness of this collection. It brings us storytelling gems from a disappearing world and lovingly polishes them with discourse."—Jewish Book World "Folktales of the Jews is a cross-section of cultures, backgrounds, geographies and stories, with common threads but immeasurable differences, connecting to form an odd, unique and inimitable pastiche of Jewish life."—World Jewish Digest "You will be taken by the poetry and rich cadences of the storytellers."—Jewish Herald-Voice

Dan Ben-Amos, Ph.D., is a professor of folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, the general editor of Indiana University Press's Folklore Series, and the senior editor of Mimekor Yisrael: Folktales of Israel. Dov Noy, Ph.D., is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University, the director of the Hebrew University Folklore Center, a professor of Yiddish folklore at Bar Ilan University, the 1988 recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, and the founder of the Israel Folktale Archives.

"What a gift it is! There is no denying the scope, fluidity, and uniqueness of this collection. It brings us storytelling gems from a disappearing world and lovingly polishes them with discourse."—Jewish Book World "Folktales of the Jews is a cross-section of cultures, backgrounds, geographies and stories, with common threads but immeasurable differences, connecting to form an odd, unique and inimitable pastiche of Jewish life."—World Jewish Digest "You will be taken by the poetry and rich cadences of the storytellers."—Jewish Herald-Voice

Dan Ben-Amos, Ph.D., is a professor of folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, the general editor of Indiana University Press's Folklore Series, and the senior editor of Mimekor Yisrael: Folktales of Israel. Dov Noy, Ph.D., is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University, the director of the Hebrew University Folklore Center, a professor of Yiddish folklore at Bar Ilan University, the 1988 recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, and the founder of the Israel Folktale Archives.

"What a gift it is! There is no denying the scope, fluidity, and uniqueness of this collection. It brings us storytelling gems from a disappearing world and lovingly polishes them with discourse."—Jewish Book World "Folktales of the Jews is a cross-section of cultures, backgrounds, geographies and stories, with common threads but immeasurable differences, connecting to form an odd, unique and inimitable pastiche of Jewish life."—World Jewish Digest "You will be taken by the poetry and rich cadences of the storytellers."—Jewish Herald-Voice