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Tales in Context: Sefer Ha-Ma'asim in Medieval Northern France (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) free ebook download

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Author(s):	Rella Kushelevsky

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	081434271X
Pages:	816	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma'asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover's wounds and restore him to life  a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant's daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories' meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight.

The first part of Kushelevsky's work, "Cultural, Literary and Comparative Perspectives," presents the thesis that

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