Name: Leaves from the Garden of Eden By Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)
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Leaves from the Garden of Eden by Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)

In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition. Just as Schwartz's award-winning book Tree of Souls collected the essential myths of Jewish tradition, Leaves from the Garden of Eden collects one hundred essential Jewish tales. As imaginative as the Arabian Nights, these stories invoke enchanted worlds, demonic realms, and mystical experiences. The four most popular types of Jewish tales are gathered here-fairy tales, folktales, supernatural tales, and mystical tales-taking readers on heavenly journeys, lifelong quests, and descents to the underworld. There is a dybbuk lurking in a well, a book that comes to life, and a world where Lilith, the Queen of Demons, seduces the unsuspecting. Here too are Jewish versions of many of the best-known tales, including "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel." Schwartz's retelling of one of these stories, "The Finger," inspired Tim Burton's film Corpse Bride.

About Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)

Howard Schwartz is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2005.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; I. Summoning the Patriarchs ; II. Four Types of Jewish Tales ; III. The Jewish Mythical Imagination ; IV. What Makes a Jewish Folktale Jewish? ; V. The Stories of Reb Nachman ; FAIRY TALES: 25 ; FOLKTALES: 25 ; SUPERNATURAL TALES: 25 ; MYSTICAL TALES: 25 ; SOURCES AND COMMENTARIES ; APPENDICES ; GLOSSARY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL SOURCES ; SELECTED ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY ; GENERAL INDEX

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Leaves from the Garden of Eden by Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)

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Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)

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Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

2010-09-23

Number of pages

544

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Leaves from the Garden of Eden Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)

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Leaves from the Garden of Eden by Howard Schwartz (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis)

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