%0 Journal Article
%T Jewish Legends from Kraków
%A Grözinger, Karl E.
%J Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
%V 2010
%N Volume 8
%P 61-67

%@ 1733-5760
%D 2011
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/artykul/jewish-legends-from-krakow
%X 
	When I came to Kraków for the first time several years ago and tried to get some information about the Jewish Kraków, 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.