Jewish Poland – Legends of Origin: Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles 9780814343913, 9780814343920
The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlement in the country are co
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English Pages 195 [196] Year 2001
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustration
Preface
1. The Geography of the Jewish Imagination: Po-Lin among Trees with Leaves from the Gemara
2. Legends of Acceptance: Segregation versus Involvement
3. The Legend of Abraham the Jew, King of Poland
4. The Legend of Esther the Jewess and King Casimir the Great of Poland
5. "My Eyes Shed Tears, Because the Enemy Has Overcome": The Transformation of Legends of Origin into Legends of Destruction
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Places
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Copyright © 2001 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All material in this work, except as identified below, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/. All material not licensed under a Creative Commons license is all rights reserved. Permission must be obtained from the copyright owner to use this material.
The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bar-Yitshak, Hayah. Jewish Poland—legends of origin : ethnopoetics and legendary chronicles / Haya Bar-Itzhak. p. cm. — (Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-8143-4391-3 (paperback); 978-0-8143-4392-0 (ebook) 1. Legends, Jewish—Poland—History and criticism. 2. Jews—Poland—Folklore. 3. Legends, Jewish—Poland. 4. Jews—Poland—Origin—Folklore. I. Title. II. Series. BM530 .B3115 2001 398.2'089'9240438–dc21 00-011672 Translation by Lenn Schramm Wayne State University Press thanks the following individuals and institutions for their generous permission to reprint material in this book: Arkady Publishing, Poland; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw; and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Exhaustive efforts were made to obtain permission for use of material in this text. Any missed permissions resulted from a lack of information about the material, copyright holder, or both. If you are a copyright holder of such material, please contact WSUP at [email protected]. http://wsupress.wayne.edu/