The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyWiener, Leo
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The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Wiener, Leo
Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
[27] In A. S. Isaac's _Stories from the Rabbis_ (see above), there is
a chapter on _Elijah in the Legends_ (pp. 92-103). Other stories of
Elijah: D. Cassel, _Elia in der Legende_, in _Allgemeine Zeitung des
Judenthums_, 1892, Feb. 26, p. 104, and March 6, p. 115; _Urquell_,
Vol. IV. pp. 11-14, 42-45, 120, 121; Z. d. V. f. V., Vol. IV. p.
209. An older story is mentioned in Steinschneider's _Catalogue_,
_Serapeum_, Vol. IX. (1848), p. 384, No. 174. See also B. W. Segel,
_Materyały_ _do etnografii žydów wschodnio-galicyjskich_, in _Zbiór
wiadomości do antropologii krajowej_, Cracow, Vol. XVII. pp. 296-298.
[28] Stories of Maimonides are contained in _Maasebuch_ (or, rather
in addition _Maase Adonai_), according to Steinschneider, _Serapeum_,
Vol. XXVII. (1866), p. 5, No. 7. For other stories, see Bibliography.
[29] Nearly the same story is in Gaster's _Jewish Folk Lore_, etc.
[30] A similar story, also of a local character, is told by Dick in
_Alte jüdische Sagen oder Ssipurim_, p. 42, where he mentions a Polish
work, _Przechadzki po Wilnie i jego okolicach_ przez Jana ze Śliwnia
(A. Kirkor), Wilna, 1859, that contains many Jewish tales.
[31] Also told of a Rabbi of Prague, in _Sippurim, Sammlung jüdischer
Volkssagen, Erzählungen, Mythen, Chroniken, Denkwürdigkeiten und
Biographien berühmter Juden aller Jahrhunderte, besonders des
Mittelalters (Jüdische Universalbibliothek)_, Prague, 1895. These
_Sippurim_ have no great folklore value, as they show too much the
hand of the literary worker. Of similar value is H. Iliowizi's _In the
Pale; Stories and Legends of the Russian Jews_, Philadelphia, 1897.
[32] On the Khassidim, read M. Sachor-Masoch, _Sectes juives de la
Galicie_, in _Actes et Conférances de la Société des Études Juives_,
1889, pp. cxli-clxiii, and S. Schechter, _Studies in Judaism_,
pp. 1-45 and 341. For the Russian sources on the Khassidim, see
_Sistematičeskij ukazatel' literatury o evrejach_, pp. 177-179 (Nos.
2424-2476). Stories of Adam Balschem are mentioned by Steinschneider,
as _Geschichte des R. Adam Baal Schem_, and _Geschichte des R. Adam
mit dem Kaiser_, in _Serapeum_, Vol. X. (1849), p. 9, No. 183. See
also _Urquell_, Vol. V. p. 266, and Vol. VI. p. 33. B. W. Segel's
_Jüdische Wundermänner_, in _Globus_, Vol. LXII. pp. 312-314,
331-334, 343-345, are merely translations from the _Sseefer Ssipuree
Maisses_ (_Khal Chsidim_); of similar origin is his _O chasydach i
chasydyzmie_, in _Wista_, Vol. VIII. pp. 304-312, 509-521, 677-690;
other stories by him are in his _Materyały do etnografii żydów_, as
above.
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