[23] Read, on this subject, Joseph Jacobs, _Jewish Diffusion of Folk Tales_, in _Jewish Ideals and Other Essays_, London, 1896, pp. 135-161. [24] The following books and essays treat on Judeo-German folklore in general: Herman Lotze, _Zur jüdisch-deutschen Litteratur_, in Gosche's _Archiv für Litteraturgeschichte_, Vol. I., Leipsic, 1870, pp. 90-101; M. Steinschneider, _Über die Volkslitteratur der Juden_, ibid., Vol. II. pp. 1-21; S. Gelbhaus, _Mittelhochdeutsche Dichtung in ihrer Beziehung zur biblisch-rabbinischen Litteratur_, Frankfurt a. M., 1893, IV. Heft, pp. 59 ff.; Brüll, _Beiträge zur jüdischen Sagen-und Sprach-kunde im Mittelalter_, in _Jahrbücher für jüdische Geschichte und Litteratur_, IX. _Jahrgang_, Frankfurt a. M., 1889, pp. 1-71; J. Jacobs, _Jewish Diffusion of Folk Tales_, a paper read before the Jews' College Literary Society, in _The Jewish Chronicle_, London, June 1, 1888 (also published separately in _Jewish Ideals and Other Essays_, as above); M. Gaster, _Jewish Folk Lore in the Middle Ages_, in papers read before the Jews' College Literary Society during the Session 1886-87, London, 1887, pp. 39-51 (also published separately by _The Jewish Chronicle_, 1887, 8vo); G. Levi, _Christiani ed Ebrei nel Medio Evo, Quadro di costumi con un appendice di recordi e leggende giudaiche della medesima epocha_, Florence, 1866, 16mo (pp. 307-406); A. M. Tendlau, _Das Buch der Sagen und Legenden jüdischer Vorzeit_ (2te Auflage), Stuttgart, 1845, 8vo, 335 pp.; the same, _Fellmeiers Abende, Mährchen und Geschichten aus grauer Vorzeit_, Frankfurt a. M., 1856, 16mo, 290 pp.; Israel Lévi, _Contes juifs_, in _Revue des Études Juives_, Vol. XI. pp. 209-234; Is. Loeb, _Le folklore juif dans la chronique du Schébet Jehuda d'Ibn Verga_, in _Revue des Études Juives_, Vol. XXIV. pp. 1-29. For general ethnographic sketches of the Russian Jews, containing a great deal of material of a folklore nature, see _Sistematičeskij ukazatel' literatury o evrejach na russkom jazykě so vremeni vvedenija graždanskago šrifta (1708 g.) po dekabr' 1889 g._, St. Petersburg, 1893, Part V. pp. 198-204 and 206-207; of the works mentioned there, Nos. 2831 and 2912 are especially important.