How Long to Read Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2

How Long Does it Take to Read Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 25 minutes to read Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 by Dan Ben-Amos

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

Description

Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), 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 Ashkenasic 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 volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition

How long is Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2?

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 by Dan Ben-Amos is 667 pages long, and a total of 171,419 words.

This makes it 225% the length of the average book. It also has 209% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 36 minutes to read Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 aloud.

What Reading Level is Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2?

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 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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