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Eli Yassif

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.

  • Around the Sea of Galilee, Safed
    Around the Sea of Galilee, Safed
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    Reports of Miracles From Safed

    How the great kabbalist Isaac Luria changed the perception of the world without changing the world itself

    byEli Yassif
  • A leaf from the Toledot Yeshu, collected 1909–1912 from Fustat, Egypt, by Jacques Mosseri.
    A leaf from the Toledot Yeshu, collected 1909–1912 from Fustat, Egypt, by Jacques Mosseri.
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    The Jewish Jesus Story

    In the mysterious and controversial ancient Hebrew text ‘Toledot Yeshu,’ a counterlife of the Nazarene ‘bastard, son of a menstruant’ that criticizes Jews as much as Christians

    byEli Yassif
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