How Long to Read Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

How Long Does it Take to Read Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 43 minutes to read Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) by Dan Ben Amos

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.

How long is Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)?

Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) by Dan Ben Amos is 873 pages long, and a total of 220,869 words.

This makes it 295% the length of the average book. It also has 270% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 6 minutes to read Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) aloud.

What Reading Level is Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)?

Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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