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Jewish Legends from Kraków

Publication date: 15.02.2011

Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 2010, Volume 8, pp. 61 - 67

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Karl E. Grözinger
University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, Germany
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Jewish Legends from Kraków

Abstract

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.

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Information: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 2010, Volume 8, pp. 61 - 67

Article type: Original article

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Jewish Legends from Kraków

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Jewish Legends from Kraków

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University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, Germany

Published at: 15.02.2011

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