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
[34] A few scattered stories may be found in the following
publications: M. Schwarzfeld, _Basmul cu Pantoful la Evrei, la Români
şi la alte Popoare, Studiu folkloristic_, Bucureşti, 1893, 8vo, 27 pp.
(_Extras din Anuarul pentru Israeliţi_, Vol. XV. pp. 138-165); by the
same, _Scrisoare către Dumnezeu, Cercetare folcloristică_ (_Anuarul
pentru Israeliţi_, Vol. XV. pp. 191-198); R. T. Kaindl, _Eine jüdische
Sage über die Entstehung des Erdbebens_, _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_,
Vol. XXV. p. 370; B. W. Segel, _Jüdische Volksmärchen_, in _Globus_,
Vol. LX. pp. 283 ff., 296-298, 313-315. The largest collection of
folk-tales by the same author are given in _Zbiór wiadomości do
antropologii krajowej_, Vol. XVII., Cracow, 1893, under the title,
_Materyały do etnografii żydów wschodnio-galicyjskich_, pp. 261-332; a
review of this important work, in German, is given in the _Urquell_,
Vol. V. pp. 183-186. Scattered through the _Urquell_ there are many
interesting tales, mainly on _gilgulim_, _leezim_, _meessim_; cf.
Vol. IV., pp. 96, 97, 257; Neue Folge, Vol. I. pp. 80, 81, 121, 122,
344, 345, 351; see also Z. d. V. f. V., Vol. IV. p. 210. See also the
bibliography of the legends, etc., in _Sistematičeskij ukazatel_, p.
211 (Nos. 3133-3136).
[35] On the customs, beliefs, superstitions, etc., of the Jews, see
A. P. Bender, _Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews Connected with
Death, Burial, and Mourning_, in _Jewish Quarterly Review_, Vol. VI.
pp. 317-347, 664-671, and Vol. VII. pp. 101-118; Dan, _Volksglauben
und Gebräuche der Juden in der Bukowina_, in _Zeitschrift für
österreichische Volkskunde_, Vol. II. Nos. 2, 3; Hedvige Heinicke,
_Le carnaval des juifs galiciens_, in _Revue des Traditions
populaires_, Vol. VI. p. 118; I. Buchbinder, _Jüdische Sabobones_,
in _Hausfreund_, Vol. II. pp. 167-170; Steinschneider mentions books
dealing on superstitions in his catalogue in the _Serapeum_, under
the numbers 219 and 421. This subject is treated extensively in the
_Urquell_, Vol. II. pp. 5-7, 34-36, 112, 165, 166, 181-183; Vol.
III. pp. 18, 19, 286-288; Vol. IV. pp. 73-75, 94-96, 118, 119, 141,
142, 170, 171, 187-189, 210, 211, 272-274; Vol. V. pp. 19, 81, 170,
171, 225-228, 290, 291; Neue Folge, Vol. I. pp. 9, 46-49, 270, 271;
Vol. II. pp. 33, 34, 46, 108-110. See also Segel, _Materyały do
etnografii żydów_, etc., pp. 319-328; S. Abramowitsch, _Dās klēine
Menschele_, pp. 76-77; Linetzki, _Dās chsidische Jüngel_, pp. 29-31,
114. For a general work on Jewish superstitions, see M. Schuhl,
_Superstitions et coutumes populaires du Judaisme contemporain_,
Paris, 1882, 4to, 42 pp. The most important contribution on the
beliefs of the German Jews in the early Middle Ages is given by
Güdemann, _Geschichte des Erziehungswesen und der Cultur der Juden_,
etc., Vol. I. Chap. VII. pp. 199-228, under the title, _Der jüdische
Aber-, Zauber-und Hexen-glaube in Frankreich und Deutschland im 12.
und 13. Jahrhunderte_.
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