Short description:

This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

Long description:

This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

"Indeed, one can imagine that students looking for specific knowledge may first read it online. Yet an encyclopedia is always larger than the sum of its parts. This is particularly so in the present case. Knowledge may change and be updated, but the encyclopedia will remain a benchmark in the history of Jewish folklore research, celebrating the achievements of this field in the last 150 years. In that, the encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive answer to what Jewish folklore is."
- Dani Schrire, The Program for Folklore and Folk-Culture at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel

Folklore 126:1, 105-107 2015

Table of Contents:

A; Aaron; Abraham; Adam; Afghanistan, Jews Of; Afikoman; Afterlife; Age and the Aged; Agnon, S.Y. (1888?1970); Akedah; Alchemy; Alexander, Tamar (1945?); Almi, A. (Elia Chaim Scheps); Alphabet of Ben Sira; Amulets; Angel of Death; Angels; Animal Folktales; Animals; An-Ski, S. (1863?1920); Anthologies; Aramaic; Ararat; Armistead, Samuel G.; Asmodeus; Attias, Moshe (1898?1973); Ausubel, Nathan (1899?1986); Av, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Av); Av, Ninth of (Tisha Be'Av); B; Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht) (1700?1760); Badchan (Jester); Balaam; Ba?aban, Mayer (Meir) (1877?1942); Bar and Bat Mitzvah; Bar Kochba, Shimeon; Bar-Itzhak, Haya (1946?); Bar Yohai, Shimeon; Bashevis-Singer, Isaac (1904?1991); Bastomski, Shloyme; Ben Ham'elekh Ve'ha'nazir; Ben-Amos, Dan (1934?); Ben Yehezkel, Mordechai; Berdyczewski (Bin-Gorion), Micha Josef (1865?1921); Beregovski, Moshe; Bernstein, Ignatz; Bialik, Haim Nachman (1873?1934); Birth; Blessing God; Blood Libel; Bride Price; Brith-Milah; Bronner, Simon J. (1954?); Brother-Sister Marriage; Buber, Martin; Bulgaria, Jews of; C; Cahan, Y.L. (1881?1937); Cain and Abel; Canada, Jews of; Cemetery; Charms, Books of; Chelm, The Wise of; Chibut Hakever; Circumcision and Birth Ceremony for Girls; Costume; Custom; Custom Books; Czechoslovakia, Jews of; D; Danilevich, Hershl; David, King; Death; Death by Kiss (Mitat Neshiqah); Demon; Demonology; Dialect Stories, Jewish-American; Dowry; Dreams; Druyanow, Alter (1870?1938); Dundes, Alan (1934?2005); Dybbuk; E; Edot: A Quarterly for Folklore and Ethnology; Egg; Elijah the Prophet; Elisha Ben-Avuyah; Ellis Island; Elzet, Judah (Avidah, Yehuda Leib); Engel, Julius; Esther; Esther Scroll; Estherke; Ethiopia, Jews of; Eve; Evil Eye; Exemplum; F; Fable; Fefer, Itsik; Folk Art; Folk Belief; Folk Dance, Jewish and Israeli; Folk Medicine; Folk Music and Song; Folk Narratives in Israel; Folk Narratives in Rabbinic Literature; Folk Narratives in the Bible; Folk Narratives in the Middle Ages; Folk Narratives, Immigration and Absorption; Folk Narratives, Sephardi; Folk Songs; Folk Songs and Poetry, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino); Folk Songs and Poetry, North African; Folk Songs, Israeli; Food and Foodways; Four Species (Arba'at Ha'Minim); Frenkel, Gizela (1895?1984); G; Gaster, Moses (1856?1939); Gaster, Theodor H. (1906?1992); Georgia, Jews of; Germany, Jews of; Ginsburg (Ginzburg), Saul; Ginzberg, Louis (1873?1953); Goldberg-Mulkiewicz, Olga (1933?); Golem; Graubard, Pinhas; Greece, Jews of; Grünwald, Max (1871?1953); H; Haggadah of Passover; Hagiography; Hair Covering, Women; ?anukkah; ?anukkah Lamp; Hasan-Rokem, Galit (1945?); Hasidic Tales; Head Covering, Men; Hebron; Hell (Gehinnom); Hershele Ostropoler; ?evra Kadisha; Historical Ethnographic Society of Vilna; Holle Kreisch; Holocaust Folklore; Hoshana Rabba; Humor; Hungary, Jews of; ?uppah; I; Ibn Ezra, Abraham (C. 1092?1167); Iconography; Illuminated Manuscripts; Independence Day; India, Jews of; Internet Folklore; Iran, Jews of; Iraq, Jews of; Isaac; Israel Folktale Archives; Isserles, Moses Ben Israel, Rabbi (Rama) (C. 1525?1572); Italy, Jews of; J; Jacob (Ya'acov); Jacobs, Joseph (1854?1916); Jason, Heda (1932?); Jerusalem and the Temple; Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Journal; Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society of St. Petersburg; Joha; Joke; Jonah, Book of; Joseph; Judeo Languages; K; Kabbalah; Kadman, Gurit (1897?1987); Kame'a; Karaites, Eastern European; Ketubbah; Kibbutz, Folklore of; Kiddushin; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara; Kisselgof, Zalman; Kurdistan, Jews of; L; Ladino; Lag Ba'Omer; Lamech, Lemech; Lamps and Candles; Languages, Jewish; Languages, Struggle Between; Leah; Legend; Lehman, Shmuel; Lévy, Isaac Jack (1928?); Lew, Henryk; Lewinski, Yom-Tov (1899?1973); Lilienthal, Regina (1877?1924); Lilith; Lithuania, Jews of; Lot; Lot's Wife; Lullabies; Luz; M; Ma'aseh Book (Mayse Bukh); Ma'aseh Yerushalmi, the Story of the Jerusalemite; Magic; Manger, Itzik (1901?1969); Ma'oz Tsur; M?q?ma; Marek, Pesa?; Marriage; Meir Ba'al Ha'nes, Rabbi; Memorial Day; Menorah; Methusela?; Messiah and Redeemer; Mezuzah; Midrash; Mimuna Festival; Minhag (Custom); Minhag Books (Books of Custom); Minyan; Mitteilungen Der Gesellschaft Für Jüdische Volkskunde; Mizra?; Mlotek, Chana; Monsters and Other Mythological Creatures; Month; Moses; Mother (?annah, Miriam) and Her Seven Sons; Mother, Jewish; Mountain Jews; Mourning; Moykher Sforim, Mendele (1835?1917); Museums (Vernacular) in Israel; Museums, Jewish; N; Name, Naming; Narkiss, Mordechai; New Year Cards; Niger, Shmuel; Nitl Nakht; Noah; North Africa, Jews of; Noy, Dov (1920?); O; Olswanger, Immanuel (1888?1961); Oring, Elliott (1945?); Oseh Pele; P; Papercut; Parable; Paradise (Gan Eden); Pascheles, Wolf; Passover; Patai, Raphael (1910?1996); Peretz, Isaac Leib (1851?1915); Pinto, Rabbi Haim (1748?1845); Pipe, Shmuel Zanvel; Plants; Poland, Jews of; Pope, Jewish; Prayer; Prochownik, Abraham; Proverb; Prylucki Noah (Noyekh Prilutski); Psalms; Purim; Purimshpil; Q; Qinah (Lament); R; Rabbah bar bar ?annah; Rabbinic Literature; Rachel; Rambam (Maimonides) (1138?1204); Rappoport, Angelo Salomon (1871?1950); Rebekah; Reshumot; Resurrection; Riddles; Romania, Jews of; Rosh ?odesh; Rosh Ha'Shana; Russia, Jews of; Ruth; S; Sabar, Shalom (B. 1951); Sadan, Dov (1902?1989); Safed, Legends of; Samael; Samaritans; Sambation; Samson and Delilah; Sarah; Satan; Schwarzbaum, Haim (1911?1983); Sea; Seamen Tales and Traditions; Seder Plate; Segel, Benjamin Wolf (1866?1931); Sehrane; Serpent; Seven Benedictions (Sheva Berakhot); Seven Species (Shiv'at Ha'Minim); Shabazi, Shalom (1619?ca. 1680); Shabbat; Shabbat ?atan; Shalit, Moshe; Shavuot (The Feast of Weeks); Shenhar, Aliza (1943?); Sheol; Sheva Berakhot (Seven Benedictions); Shimeon Bar Yo?ai; Shiviti-Menorah; Shofar; Sholem Aleichem (1859?1916); Shtetl; Shtyyah Stone; Shvat, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Shvat); Silverman Weinreich, Beatrice; Simchat Torah Flags; Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Siporin, Steve (1947?); Slobin, Mark; Sodom; Solomon, King; Soul; Spain, Jews of; Star (Shield) of David; Steinschneider, Moritz; Sternberg (Shternberg), Lev; Stones; Sukkah; Sukkot; Symbols; T; Tamar; Tavayev, I.; Tobit, The Book of; Tombstones; Torah Ark; Torah Ceremonial Objects; Torah Ornaments; Trachtenberg, Joshua (1904?1959); Transmigration of the Soul (Gilgul Neshamot); Tribes, Ten Lost; Turkey, Jews of; Tzitzit; U; Ukraine, Jews of; United States, Jews of; Ushpizin; W; Wahl, Saul (C. 1542?1622); Wandering Jew; Wedding; Western Wall; Women in Rabbinic Literature; Wonder Tale; World to Come (Olam Ha'ba); Writing; Y; Yassif, Eli; Yeda Am; Yemen, Jews of; Yiddish; Yivo Ethnographic Committee; Yom Kippur; Yosef dela Reina, The Story of (Ma'aseh Yosef dela Reina); Z; Zefat; Zipporah; Zlotnick, Yeshayahu