Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions

Aaron

Abraham

Adam

Afghanistan, Jews Of

Afikoman

Afterlife

Age and the Aged

Agnon, S.Y. (1888–1970)

Akedah

Alchemy

Alexander, Tamar (1945–)

Almi, A. (Elia Chaim Scheps)

Alphabet of Ben Sira

Amulets

Angel of Death

Angels

Animal Folktales

Animals

An-Ski, S. (1863–1920)

Anthologies

Aramaic

Ararat

Armistead, Samuel G.

Asmodeus

Attias, Moshe (1898–1973)

Ausubel, Nathan (1899–1986)

Av, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Av)

Av, Ninth of (Tisha Be'Av)

Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht) (1700–1760)

Badchan (Jester)

Balaam

Bałaban, Mayer (Meir) (1877–1942)

Bar and Bat Mitzvah

Bar Kochba, Shimeon

Bar-Itzhak, Haya (1946–)

Bar Yohai, Shimeon

Bashevis-Singer, Isaac (1904–1991)

Bastomski, Shloyme

Ben Ham'elekh Ve'ha'nazir

Ben-Amos, Dan (1934–)

Ben Yehezkel, Mordechai

Berdyczewski (Bin-Gorion), Micha Josef (1865–1921)

Beregovski, Moshe

Bernstein, Ignatz

Bialik, Haim Nachman (1873–1934)

Birth

Blessing God

Blood Libel

Bride Price

Brith-Milah

Bronner, Simon J. (1954–)

Brother-Sister Marriage

Buber, Martin

Bulgaria, Jews of

Cahan, Y.L. (1881–1937)

Cain and Abel

Canada, Jews of

Cemetery

Charms, Books of

Chelm, The Wise of

Chibut Hakever

Circumcision and Birth Ceremony for Girls

Costume

Custom

Custom Books

Czechoslovakia, Jews of

Danilevich, Hershl

David, King

Death

Death by Kiss (Mitat Neshiqah)

Demon

Demonology

Dialect Stories, Jewish-American

Dowry

Dreams

Druyanow, Alter (1870–1938)

Dundes, Alan (1934–2005)

Dybbuk

Edot: A Quarterly for Folklore and Ethnology

Egg

Elijah the Prophet

Elisha Ben-Avuyah

Ellis Island

Elzet, Judah (Avidah, Yehuda Leib)

Engel, Julius

Esther

Esther Scroll

Estherke

Ethiopia, Jews of

Eve

Evil Eye

Exemplum

Fable

Fefer, Itsik

Folk Art

Folk Belief

Folk Dance, Jewish and Israeli

Folk Medicine

Folk Music and Song

Folk Narratives in Israel

Folk Narratives in Rabbinic Literature

Folk Narratives in the Bible

Folk Narratives in the Middle Ages

Folk Narratives, Immigration and Absorption

Folk Narratives, Sephardi

Folk Songs

Folk Songs and Poetry, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)

Folk Songs and Poetry, North African

Folk Songs, Israeli

Food and Foodways

Four Species (Arba'at Ha'Minim)

Frenkel, Gizela (1895–1984)

Gaster, Moses (1856–1939)

Gaster, Theodor H. (1906–1992)

Georgia, Jews of

Germany, Jews of

Ginsburg (Ginzburg), Saul

Ginzberg, Louis (1873–1953)

Goldberg-Mulkiewicz, Olga (1933–)

Golem

Graubard, Pinhas

Greece, Jews of

Grünwald, Max (1871–1953)

Haggadah of Passover

Hagiography

Hair Covering, Women

Ḥanukkah

Ḥanukkah Lamp

Hasan-Rokem, Galit (1945–)

Hasidic Tales

Head Covering, Men

Hebron

Hell (Gehinnom)

Hershele Ostropoler

Ḥevra Kadisha

Historical Ethnographic Society of Vilna

Holle Kreisch

Holocaust Folklore

Hoshana Rabba

Humor

Hungary, Jews of

Ḥuppah

Ibn Ezra, Abraham (C. 1092–1167)

Iconography

Illuminated Manuscripts

Independence Day

India, Jews of

Internet Folklore

Iran, Jews of

Iraq, Jews of

Isaac

Israel Folktale Archives

Isserles, Moses Ben Israel, Rabbi (Rama) (C. 1525–1572)

Italy, Jews of

Jacob (Ya'acov)

Jacobs, Joseph (1854–1916)

Jason, Heda (1932–)

Jerusalem and the Temple

Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Journal

Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society of St. Petersburg

Joha

Joke

Jonah, Book of

Joseph

Judeo Languages

Kabbalah

Kadman, Gurit (1897–1987)

Kame'a

Karaites, Eastern European

Ketubbah

Kibbutz, Folklore of

Kiddushin

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara

Kisselgof, Zalman

Kurdistan, Jews of

Ladino

Lag Ba'Omer

Lamech, Lemech

Lamps and Candles

Languages, Jewish

Languages, Struggle Between

Leah

Legend

Lehman, Shmuel

Lévy, Isaac Jack (1928–)

Lew, Henryk

Lewinski, Yom-Tov (1899–1973)

Lilienthal, Regina (1877–1924)

Lilith

Lithuania, Jews of

Lot

Lot's Wife

Lullabies

Luz

Ma'aseh Book (Mayse Bukh)

"Ma'aseh Yerushalmi," the Story of the Jerusalemite

Magic

Manger, Itzik (1901–1969)

Ma'oz Tsur

Māqāma

Marek, Pesaḥ

Marriage

Meir Ba'al Ha'nes, Rabbi

Memorial Day

Menorah

Methuselaḥ

Messiah and Redeemer

Mezuzah

Midrash

Mimuna Festival

Minhag (Custom)

Minhag Books (Books of Custom)

Minyan

Mitteilungen Der Gesellschaft Für Jüdische Volkskunde

Mizraḥ

Mlotek, Chana

Monsters and Other Mythological Creatures

Month

Moses

Mother (Ḥannah, Miriam) and Her Seven Sons

Mother, Jewish

Mountain Jews

Mourning

Moykher Sforim, Mendele (1835–1917)

Museums (Vernacular) in Israel

Museums, Jewish

Name, Naming

Narkiss, Mordechai

New Year Cards

Niger, Shmuel

Nitl Nakht

Noah

North Africa, Jews of

Noy, Dov (1920—)

Olswanger, Immanuel (1888–1961)

Oring, Elliott (1945–)

Oseh Pele

Papercut

Parable

Paradise (Gan Eden)

Pascheles, Wolf

Passover

Patai, Raphael (1910–1996)

Peretz, Isaac Leib (1851–1915)

Pinto, Rabbi Haim (1748–1845)

Pipe, Shmuel Zanvel

Plants

Poland, Jews of

Pope, Jewish

Prayer

Prochownik, Abraham

Proverb

Prylucki Noah (Noyekh Prilutski)

Psalms

Purim

Purimshpil

Qinah (Lament)

Rabbah bar bar Ḥannah

Rabbinic Literature

Rachel

Rambam (Maimonides) (1138–1204)

Rappoport, Angelo Salomon (1871–1950)

Rebekah

Reshumot

Resurrection

Riddles

Romania, Jews of

Rosh Ḥodesh

Rosh Ha'Shana

Russia, Jews of

Ruth

Sabar, Shalom (B. 1951)

Sadan, Dov (1902–1989)

Safed, Legends of

Samael

Samaritans

Sambation

Samson and Delilah

Sarah

Satan

Schwarzbaum, Haim (1911–1983)

Sea

Seamen Tales and Traditions

Seder Plate

Segel, Benjamin Wolf (1866–1931)

Sehrane

Serpent

Seven Benedictions (Sheva Berakhot)

Seven Species (Shiv'at Ha'Minim)

Shabazi, Shalom (1619–ca. 1680)

Shabbat

Shabbat Ḥatan

Shalit, Moshe

Shavuot (The Feast of Weeks)

Shenhar, Aliza (1943–)

Sheol

Sheva Berakhot (Seven Benedictions)

Shimeon Bar Yoḥai

Shiviti-Menorah

Shofar

Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916)

Shtetl

Shtyyah Stone

Shvat, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Shvat)

Silverman Weinreich, Beatrice

Simchat Torah Flags

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Siporin, Steve (1947–)

Slobin, Mark

Sodom

Solomon, King

Soul

Spain, Jews of

Star (Shield) of David

Steinschneider, Moritz

Sternberg (Shternberg), Lev

Stones

Sukkah

Sukkot

Symbols

Tamar

Tavayev, I.

Tobit, The Book of

Tombstones

Torah Ark

Torah Ceremonial Objects

Torah Ornaments

Trachtenberg, Joshua (1904–1959)

Transmigration of the Soul (Gilgul Neshamot)

Tribes, Ten Lost

Turkey, Jews of

Tzitzit

Ukraine, Jews of

United States, Jews of

Ushpizin

Wahl, Saul (C. 1542–1622)

Wandering Jew

Wedding

Western Wall

Women in Rabbinic Literature

Wonder Tale

World to Come (Olam Ha'ba)

Writing

Yassif, Eli

Yeda Am

Yemen, Jews of

Yiddish

Yivo Ethnographic Committee

Yom Kippur

Yosef dela Reina, The Story of (Ma'aseh Yosef dela Reina)

Zefat

Zipporah

Zlotnick, Yeshayahu