Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel

by Raphael Patai

Raphael Patai' s (1910-1996) lifelong fascination with Arab folktales began on a Ramadan night in 1933, at a cafe in Jerusalem where, for the first time, he heard a famous qassas, a storyteller, tirelessly relate story after story from his vast repertoire of Arab folktales. In Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel, a collection of twenty-eight tales gathered in Palestine and Israel and one of Patai's last books, Patai explores this rich cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814327109
• ISBN13: 9780814327104
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"