Dan Ben-amos

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe - Folktales of the Jews Dan Ben-amos

Publisher Marketing: This is a collection of 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary backgrounds.

Contributor Bio:  Ben-Amos, Dan Dan Ben-Amos is Professor of Folklore and of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Contributor Bio:  Noy, Dov 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.