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Pintel-Ginsberg has mined the rich treasures of the IFA that she skillfully administered in the past, introducing to a wider audience the diverse tastes and smells of Israeli food in the imaginative, intimate, and affectionate folds of folk narratives. This tasty broth of delectable ingredients will please the palates of readers of all ages and from all cultures.--Galit Hasan-Rokem co-editor of Companion to Folklore (5/10/2021 12:00:00 AM) Pintel-Ginsberg provides an insightful and informed discussion of poetic and cultural aspects of food as they unfold in thirty folktales selected from the IFA. Food proves to be a complex lens through which stories represent individuals and communities, negotiating their experiences, boundaries, and identities. And doing so, not uncommonly, with a pinch of salt. This indeed is a feast of flavors and ideas embedded in short narratives, now made available for an English-speaking audience.--Dina Stein University of Haifa, Academic Head, The Israel Folktale Archives (5/10/2021 12:00:00 AM) The stories themselves offer more for study than for sharing aloud, but with this book, a feast has been served. --Sharon Elswit Jewish Book Council (11/8/2021 12:00:00 AM) The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representations in the Israel Folktale Archives presents stories about food told by 29 storytellers representing 17 different locales or communities around the world. With each story, author Idit Pintel-Ginsberg provides information about where and how the story was collected, and from whom. She also provides a scholarly discussion of the significance of each story in relation to Jewish traditions and in the context of the Aarne-Thompson index of motifs of world folktales. --Louis Finkelman Detroit Jewish News (9/26/2021 12:00:00 AM)

Pintel-Ginsberg has mined the rich treasures of the IFA that she skillfully administered in the past, introducing to a wider audience the diverse tastes and smells of Israeli food in the imaginative, intimate, and affectionate folds of folk narratives. This tasty broth of delectable ingredients will please the palates of readers of all ages and from all cultures.--Galit Hasan-Rokem co-editor of Companion to Folklore (5/10/2021 12:00:00 AM) Pintel-Ginsberg provides an insightful and informed discussion of poetic and cultural aspects of food as they unfold in thirty folktales selected from the IFA. Food proves to be a complex lens through which stories represent individuals and communities, negotiating their experiences, boundaries, and identities. And doing so, not uncommonly, with a pinch of salt. This indeed is a feast of flavors and ideas embedded in short narratives, now made available for an English-speaking audience.--Dina Stein University of Haifa, Academic Head, The Israel Folktale Archives (5/10/2021 12:00:00 AM)

Pintel-Ginsberg has mined the rich treasures of the IFA that she skillfully administered in the past, introducing to a wider audience the diverse tastes and smells of Israeli food in the imaginative, intimate, and affectionate folds of folk narratives. This tasty broth of delectable ingredients will please the palates of readers of all ages and from all cultures. - Galit Hasan-Rokem, co-editor of Companion to Folklore Pintel-Ginsberg provides an insightful and informed discussion of poetic and cultural aspects of food as they unfold in thirty folktales selected from the IFA. Food proves to be a complex lens through which stories represent individuals and communities, negotiating their experiences, boundaries, and identities. And doing so, not uncommonly, with a pinch of salt. This indeed is a feast of flavors and ideas embedded in short narratives, now made available for an English-speaking audience. - Dina Stein, University of Haifa, Academic Head, The Israel Folktale Archives

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Idit Pintel-Ginsberg served for over ten years as the academic coordinator of the Israel Folklore Archives at the University of Haifa. She is the coeditor of The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives with Haya Bar-Itzhak (Wayne State University Press, 2019) and Masoret Haya, 33 Essays in Folklore in Honor of Professor Haya Bar-Itzhak with Tsafi Seba-Elran and Haya Milo.

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