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Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives focuses on two central elements: textual research to examine the aesthetic qualities of the narrative, their division into genres, the various versions and their parallels, and acculturation in Israel, as well as contextual research to examine the performance art of the narrator and the role of the narrative as a communicative process in the narrating society. The collection includes twenty-one narratives by twelve storytellers; an account of the narrators' lives and a commentary have been applied to each. In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.

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An exciting contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish folklore. Recorded from traditional storytellers in their community setting, these narratives provide excellent testimony of the continuing vitality of the storytelling tradition among Moroccan Jews in Israel. The commentaries accompanying the texts extend also to the specific storytellers, their repertoire, and the performance situation itself, and contribute to our understanding of these folk narratives as well as to the study of immigrant folklore in general.--Yael Zerubavel University of Pennsylvania

"An exciting contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish folklore. Recorded from traditional storytellers in their community setting, these narratives provide excellent testimony of the continuing vitality of the storytelling tradition among Moroccan Jews in Israel. The commentaries accompanying the texts extend also to the specific storytellers, their repertoire, and the performance situation itself, and contribute to our understanding of these folk narratives as well as to the study of immigrant folklore in general.--Yael Zerubavel ""University of Pennsylvania """

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Haya Bar-Itzhak is chair of folklore studies and a teacher in the department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Haifa. Aliza Shenhar is a professor of folklore and Rector at the University of Haifa.

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