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Gesellschaft Für Jüdische Volkskunde : Mitteilungen Der Gesellschaft Für Jüdische Volkskunde Heft 2

New York; Johnson Reprint Corp., 1964

FT) Softbound. 8vo. 89 pages. 21 cm. In German. Reprint of the 1898 volume of the Vienna journal. “Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Jüdische Volkskunde”, or, “Announcements of the Society for Jewish folklore”, ran from 1898-1904, ceasing with number 32. Heft (Bulletin) number two, here, includes a members directory, questions, an essay on fairy tales and legends of German Jews, a linguistics chart of Russian-Jewish by Leo Wiener, amongst other sections. “In 1898, Max Grunwald (1871–1953) , a rabbi living in Hamburg and then Vienna, established the Gesellschaft für Jüdische Volkskunde, Mitteilungen (der Gesellschaft) für Jüdische Volkskunde (1898–1929) and Museum für Jüdische Volkskunde, having issued a call to collect materials and a questionnaire in 1896. Grunwald hoped that Jewish Volkskunde would preserve a record of a disappearing way of life and, by demonstrating the beauty of traditions and encouraging their revival, help stem the tide of assimilation; he also hoped that by showing the connectedness of Jews to other peoples and their universal values, Jewish Volkskunde might counteract anthropological characterizations of Jews as an immutable and degenerate race. ” (from the YIVO encyclopedia 2010) . Subjects: Jews -- Folklore -- Periodicals. Jews -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals. Covers aged and faded at edges, pages lightly aged in margins, very clean. Very good + condition (GER-33-13)

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