Jewish Folkore and Ethnology, Volume 2 (Fall 2023)

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) is a peer-reviewed annual journal. It features innovative, original analytical studies, essays, and commentaries in English on the diverse ways in which Jewishness is expressed, conceived, transformed, and perceived by Jews and non-Jews through folklore, tradition, and social/cultural practice. JFE succeeds previous international serials of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review and Jewish Cultural Studies sponsored by the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. JFE’s coverage includes but is not limited to genres of narrative, song, music, speech, custom, ritual, belief, art, craft, architecture, dance, dress, and food; practices and performances of the body, faith, home, and community in the past and present; and ideas of tradition, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, education, and culture. JFE invites submissions from varied disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and methodologies/approaches. JFE strives for an international reach in content and authors and values engaging academic writing that will be of interest to lay as well as scholarly audiences.

Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 2023)

Note on Transliteration 

“Let Me Tell You Some Stories, and You Will Record Them”: Dan Ben-Amos and the Study of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
Simon J. Bronner

The Besht as Ba’al Shem: Magic in the Life and Legacy of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov
Elly Moseson

Why Were There No Jokes After the 2021 Meron Crowd Crush? On Israeli “Joking Relationships"
Tsafi Sebba-Elran

“In Proverbiis Non Semper Veritas”: Reflections on the Reprint of an Antisemitic Proverb Collection
Wolfgang Mieder

IN THE FIELD
(Candle)sticks on Stone: The Representation of Women in Jewish Tombstone Art
Ruth Ellen Gruber 

IN MEMORIAM
Tamar Alexander-Frizer (1945–2023)
Eli Yassif

Contributors