Pioneers of Jewish Ethnography and Folkloristics in Eastern Europe

• Main Author: Bar-Itzhak, Haya (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Ljubljana ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2010
• Series: Studia Mythologica Slavica Supplementa Supplementum 2
• Subjects: Eastern Europe; Folklore, myths & legends; collective volume; ethnologists; ethnology; humor; Jewish folk literature; Jewish folk tradition; Jewish folklore; etnologi; etnologija; judovska folkloristika; judovsko ljudsko slovstvo; Vzhodna Evropa; zborniki; židovsko ljudsko izročilo
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The few scholarly treatments of Jewish ethnography and folklore studies in Eastern Europe have focused mostly on the collection of folklore materials. But even when Jewish folklore studies in Eastern Europe were still in their infancy, some scholars and authors made important contributions to the th...