Jewish Legends from Kraków

• Authors: Grozinger Karl E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

When I came to Krakow for the first time several years ago and tried to get some information about the Jewish Krakow, among the first-hand information I was offered in the bookshops were a few small booklets with legends about the Jews in this town. This is nothing special, for wherever one goes as a tourist one gets the same genre of literature: local legends and tales. It seems, therefore, that the popular legends indeed offer the first-hand information about the specific climate and the self-estimation of the inhabitants at a specific place. It is obviously the tales of a city that infuse life to its stones and places more than all exact historical data one can gather. The legend gives, so to speak, a short-hand résumé of the most typical and central features as well as the spirit of a place.

Keywords

EN

JEWISH COMMUNITY; JEWISH LEGENDS; KRAKOW; LOCAL TALES

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 61-67
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Grozinger Karl E.

• Universitat Potsdam, Institut fur Religionswissenschaft, Am Neuen Palais 10, Potsdam, Germant

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA10226