
Jewish Folktales
Pinhas Sadeh, Selected and Retold by and Hillel Halkin, Translator
Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales.
It draws from both traditional Eastern European literary sources and the vast body of oral material from the Middle East and North Africa.
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