Tales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic   culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever   published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the   five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the   tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews.     The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the   Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a   treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the   entire world until now.     Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than   20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by   their families from around the world. The tales come from the major   ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of   a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content   and context.     Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the   tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to   other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is   also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk   narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations,   biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a   subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography.     Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the   wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Many of the communities no longer   exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust,   migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these   tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a   rich but vanishing oral tradition.

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