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Leaves from the garden of Eden

one hundred classic Jewish tales

By Schwartz, Howard

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"In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from the Jewish folk tradition. With its broad selection from written and oral sources, Leaves from the Garden of Eden is a landmark collection, representing the full range of Jewish folklore, from the Talmud to the present."--BOOK JACKET.Read MoreRead Less

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ISBN
978-0-19533-565-1
Publisher
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on October 1, 2008

In this remarkable collection of Jewish tales spanning 1500 years and many different countries, Schwartz (ed., Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism) has gathered pieces from his previous collections; two of the stories here are being published for the first time. Divided into four sections, the book presents fairy tales, folktales, supernatural tales, and mystical tales. All of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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