{"product_id":"the-hebrew-folktale-in-premodern-vered-tohar-9780814350829","title":"The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRecontextualizing early modern \u003ci\u003eMusar\u003c\/i\u003e folktales to reveal a new reading of premodern Jewish texts.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and as an important channel of leisure reading in premodern Jewish culture. Utilizing a corpus of over 400 \u003ci\u003eMusar \u003c\/i\u003etales, author Vered Tohar carefully opens a path to understand the thematic and poetic features of those tales. This innovative reframing of early modern \u003ci\u003eMusar\u003c\/i\u003e texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and emphasizes the continuity of Hebrew literature from medieval to modern era. Tohar classifies these stories, which she calls \"the \u003ci\u003eMusar\u003c\/i\u003e folktales,\" into four genres adapted from classic poetic studies: tragedy, comedy, parable or social exemplum, and theological allegory. As parables of vice and virtue, the works featured here were originally printed and circulated in early modern Jewish communities, and each contained themes of love and hate, good and evil, loyalty and betrayal, or life and death. Beyond their traditional function of ethical and moral edification, Tohar advances the \u003ci\u003eMusar\u003c\/i\u003e texts as an archive of Hebrew tales and their ideological traditions. This innovative reframing of early modern Musar texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and a new way to read those texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vered Tohar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814350828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814350829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Vered Tohar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46545812259071,"sku":"9780814350829","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c660e9c7-b6aa-49a0-a8b1-e1cfad1a95fc.jpg?v=1738183397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hebrew-folktale-in-premodern-vered-tohar-9780814350829","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}