The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives ed. by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (review)

Abstract

ID:p0185 in 1955, the Israel Folktale Archives contain over twenty-four thousand folk narrative texts. They are classified using an internal numerical system, but thankfully the book provides a list of AT and ATU numbers that correspond to the tales where relevant. Much of the book’s introduction is spent detailing the ethnographic collection methods used both in general and at specific fieldwork sites, which is useful from a methodological perspective. The book also contains photographs of many of the tale-tellers, a list of the narrators, a list of the transcribers, and a list of the countries of origin of the narratives. There are appendixes aplenty. The