Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel

Yoel Shalom Perez is Retired Lecturer of Folklore at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Director of the Center of Folktales and Folklore. He is author of the preamble in King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition.Judith Rosenhouse is Retired Faculty Member and Former Head of the Department of Humanities and Arts at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She is a linguist specializing in many aspects of Arabic, including phonetics, child language, and sociolinguistics in the dialects and Modern Standard Arabic, modern Hebrew, and Hungarian-Hebrew language contacts. In 2022, she was elected president of the Israeli Linguistics Society in Honor of Haiim Rosén.

Galilee has been a crossroads of cultures, religions, and languages for centuries, as illustrated in these fascinating Bedouin folktales, which offer excellent examples of the Arabic narrative tradition of the Middle East.Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel collects nearly 60 traditional folktales, told mostly by women, that have been carefully translated in the same colloquial style in which they were told. These stories are grouped into themes of love and devotion, ghouls and demons, and animal stories. The work also includes phonetic transcription and linguistic annotation. Accompanying each folktale is a comprehensive ethnographic, folkloristic, and linguistic commentary, placing the tales in context with details on Galilee Bedouin dialects and the tribes themselves.A rich, multifaceted collection, Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel is an invaluable resource for linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and any reader interested in a tradition of storytelling handed down through the centuries.

ForewordTranscription and AbbreviationsPart I-Stories of love, loyalty, and devotion1. Between the Sun and the Moon2. The Princess on the Island3. The Girl who Fell into a Well4. The ¿'s Daughter and the Orator5. A Woman's Loyalty6. The King's Wife and the Poor Man7. ü and the Queen8. The Doe9. The Woman from the Sea10. The Raindrop Bubbles Will Testifya. The Man and his Neighborb. ¿eq An¿f (Tasting Justice)11. The Coffee Server12. The Old Man and the Girl, the Old Woman and the Young Man13. The Girl and her Brother who Became a Deer14. Do Good and Throw it to the Sea15. The Transposed Heads16. The Son Who Obeyed his Mother17. The Silent Princess and Smart Muammad18. The Two Notes (Smart Hassan)19. The Kidnapped Bride20. The Prince and his Two Wives21. In the Familya. Between a Brother and his Sisterb. Between a Bride and her Mother-in-law22. The Replaced Bride23. The Dangerous Night-Watcha. Š¿er asan and his Nine Brothersb. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers24. My Mother Slew Me; My Father Ate Mea. The Green Birdb. The Yellow Cow25. The Boy, the Uncle and the Lover26. The Inheritance CasePart II-Stories about ¿ouls and Demons27. The Giant28. Fr¿ Rumm¿n (Snow White)29. The Man Who Delivered a Daughter30. The Girl and her Seven Brothers31. The Sickle Hand32. Bells Sounda. b¿na and the Jujube Treeb. The inn and the Girl in Dog Clothes33. The Golden Palm Tree34. The Children and the Ogrea. The Girls and the ¿¿lab. Gr¿'a, m¿da and dayd¿nc. Nu-N¿35. The Em¿r's Daughter who Flew to Switzerland36. The Golden Childrena. The Three Siblings and the Talking Birdsb. The Wicked Old Womanc. The Em¿r and the Slave37. The ¿¿la, the Mallow Gatherer and his daughter38. The Two Brothers and the ¿¿la39. Personal Narratives about Meetings with ¿¿lsa. The Young Man and the ¿¿lab. The ¿¿la Who Posed as a Tribe Memberc. The Groom and the ¿¿lad. The ¿¿la in the Waterholee. Abu Xier and the ¿¿la40. The Old Woman and the ¿tPart III-Animal stories41. The Man and the Wounded Snakea. The Snake Storyb. The Shepherd and the Snake42. The Goat, the Kid and the ¿¿la43. The Lion Who Wanted to Know Man's Nature44. The Two HuntersEpilogueBedouin Dialects in the North of Israel / Judith RosenhouseBedouin Tribes in the Galilee-Historical and Settlement Background / Arnon MedziniMapsIndex of Tale TypesIndex of MotifsNarrators ListSubject IndexBibliography