Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel
Introduction, Translation, and Annotation
Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology;
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Product details:
- Publisher MP–WST Wayne State Uni Press
- Date of Publication 31 May 1998
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780814327104
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 230x152x21 mm
- Weight 475 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
"This collection studies the cultural tradition of the """"qassas"""", or storyteller, and the Arab folktale. The annotated stories offer an insight into Arab culture and tell of the trials and tribulations of ordinary people but also describe fantastic creatures and encounters with supernatural beings."
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"Raphael Patai's (1910-1996) lifelong fascination with Arab folktales began on a Ramadan night in 1933, at a cafe in Jerusalem where, for the first time, he heard a famous """"qassas"""", a storyteller, tirelessly relate story after story from his vast repertoire of Arab folktales. In """"Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel"""", a collection of 28 tales gathered in Palestine and Israel and one of Patai's last books, Patai explores this rich cultural tradition. He studies tales from three separate times: those recounted by a German scholar in 1910-11, those read over Jerusalem Radio in the winter of 1946-47, and those recorded by the Israeli scholar Yoel Perez in 1982-84. These fables, part of the cultural heritage of a small corner of the Arab world, are translated into an English that remains faithful to the original Arabic text, presenting to foreign readers a sense of the original style and a picture of traditional Arab life and customs, attitudes, social and cultural norms, psychology and values. In their mingling of the everyday and the fabulous, the stories reveal both the embellishments on and the deviations from ordinary life that characterize folklore around the world. The stories tell of the trials and tribulations of ordinary human beings, the struggle between good and evil, rich and poor, and men and women, at different historical moments in response to different stages of modernization. They also describe fantastic creatures, such as animals that speak, encounters between humans and supernatural beings such as jinns and ghouls. Providing insight into Arab culture, Patai offers extensive notes and commentary on particular Arabic phrases and images, as well as the ways of speaking and thinking found among the Arab population, especially the Bedouins, in Palestine and Israel. Patai also places the stories in the context of global folktales, and traces the transformations in the art of storytelling. This collection as a whole presents a colourful slice of traditional Arab life, value, customs, attitudes and sociocultural patterns."
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