Folktales of Joha: Jewish Trickster by Matilda Koen-Sarano non-media Translated by Michoel Rotenfeld

Translated by Michoel Rotenfeld

Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small

the book argues that this "genealogical turn" should be understood as a consequence of Jewish society's dynamic encounter with its Arab-Islamic milieu and constituted a selective adaptation to the importance of ancestry in the dominant cultural environment

He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust

Folktales of Joha: Jewish Trickster by Matilda Koen-Sarano non-media Translated by Michoel RotenfeldJoha has Januss double face: On the one hand, he is innocent and stupid; on the other, a trickster. He is a cheater and is cheated. He sets traps for others and falls into traps himself; he is simpleton and liar, victimizer and victim. But as a literary figure he never dies. The nearly 300 stories in this lovely volume are from Sephardic oral literature and ethnic culture. They were told to Matilda Koen Sarano in their original language, Judeo Spanish