The Jewish Oicotype of the<i>Predestined Marriage</i>Folktale: AaTh 930* E (IFA)

Shenhar, Aliza

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“…Almost all collections of folk literature, of any society, have stories dealing with malefemale relationships, whether from the male or female perspective. In most traditional collections, gender and couple relationships are addressed in the genre of fairytale, which is romantic and fantastic by nature, as well as in gnomic or minor genres such as proverbs, riddles, or jokes, all of which express and reflect traditional in-group as well as universal folk wisdom accumulated over many years and ever renewing (Shenhar 1983;Greenbaum Ucko 1990). The topic of matchmaking and marriage, which was touched upon in 10-12 of the 500 narratives I recorded in my Carpatho-Rusyn research projects, presents a crossroads of intertwining themes in the lives and lore of this group, and is thus proven to be, or to have been, a significant part of their milieu.…”

Section: Jewish Matchmaking and Marriage As Ethos And Narrative Tradimentioning

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Matchmaking and Marriage Narratives of Israelis of Carpatho-Rusyn Origin

Rosén¹

2014

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Abstract:The Jews of Carpatho-Rus', presently the western part of Ukraine, were largely decimated in the Holocaust as part of Hungarian Jewry. Until then and more specifically in the interwar period, in which the region was ceded to Czechoslovakia, Carpatho-Rusyn Jews were a community of about 113,000 souls, living in an area of around 100,000 square kilometres. Most of them were Orthodox, often Hasidic, a few thousand were Zionist, and even fewer turned to communism; many of them were farmers or handymen or small industry workers. After the Holocaust, the survivors rebuilt their lives in Israel and the West, though some returned to Carpatho-Rus'. Throughout the 1990s, Israeli and American organisations of former Carpatho-Rusyn Jews joined forces to facilitate the study of their interwar culture and Holocaust history and experiences by Israeli universities. These efforts yielded two research projects in which I took part and recorded around five hundred narratives belonging to various genres, mainly legend and personal narrative, as well as a few dozen full life histories. The six matchmaking and marriage narratives (plus two adjacent glosses) presented and analysed in this article deal with the following phenomena and issues: tradition vs. modernity, romantic fulfilment vs. tragic separation in the shadow of the war and the Holocaust, and families established on the route to British Mandate ruled Israel/Palestine (I/P), or the State of Israel as of 1948.

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Matchmaking and Marriage Narratives of Israelis of Carpatho-Rusyn Origin

Rosén¹

2014

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Cultural Grounding for the Transmission of the "Moon Man" Figure in the Tale of the "Predestined Wife" (ATU 930A)

Zhang¹

2014

Journal of American Folklore

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Focusing on the "Moon Man" (or matchmaker) in the tale "Predestined Wife" (ATU 930A) in Chinese examples, this article applies the historic-geographic method in a broad cultural context by exploring how the Moon Man figure in the tale has been transmitted and transformed over the past two millennia and is still alive in oral tradition, and how elements in tales rise and fall because of their relations to the fundamental values in the culture. This author argues that any key element in an "imported" tale must have familiar characteristics enabling it to adapt to the local audience and take root and, in turn, strengthen hidden beliefs and values, and that the transformation or migration of tales is the precursor of cultural integration that continues in our everyday practices.

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The Jewish Oicotype of thePredestined MarriageFolktale: AaTh 930* E (IFA)

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Matchmaking and Marriage Narratives of Israelis of Carpatho-Rusyn Origin

Matchmaking and Marriage Narratives of Israelis of Carpatho-Rusyn Origin

Cultural Grounding for the Transmission of the "Moon Man" Figure in the Tale of the "Predestined Wife" (ATU 930A)

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