The Jewish Publication Society recently received $80,000 from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities to publish a book on Jewish folk tales. “Folktales of the Jews,” being edited by Dan Ben-Amos and Dov Noy, documents Jewish culture and folklore in six volumes consisting of 355 tales.
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