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Eli Yassif is professor emeritus of Jewish Folk-Culture in The School of Jewish Studies, Tel-Aviv University. His book,

 The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning

 (Indiana University Press, 1999), won the National Jewish Book Award.