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Article: Creating Jewish identity through storytelling: the tragedy of Jacob Bendixen.(Critical Essay)
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Because storytelling is practiced mainly in the family and synagogue, it too has become a perpetuator of ethnic and family identity.
--Tamar Alexander
THe SYMBIOTIC relationship between folklore and literature continues to be of interest for both folklorists and literary critics. Axel Olrik's epic laws, Vladimir Propp's plot elements, and Antti Arne and Stith Thompson's talc types and motifs are not only found in legends, magic tales, and the fabliaux, but similar elements are also parts of novels, short stories, and even film. One particular culture that for centuries has woven the lore of the storyteller between the pages of the written text is that ...