The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah - Paperback
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The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.
In 1908, Solomon Schechter--discoverer of the Cairo Geniza and one of the founders of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America--published his groundbreaking essay on the city of Safed (Tzfat) during the sixteenth century. In the essay, Schechter pointed out the exceptional cultural achievements (religiou...
Eli Yassif is professor emeritus of Hebrew literature and Jewish folklore at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles in the field of the Hebrew story in the Middle Ages and the history of Jewish folklore. His book The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning won the National Jewish Book Award in 2000 and became the standard textbook for the study of Jewish...
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