Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Introductory and Programmatic -- 1. Problems and Tasks of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology -- 2. Jewish Folklore and Jewish Tradition -- 3. What is Hebrew Mythology? -- 4. The Goddess Cult in the Hebrew-Jewish Religion -- II. Biblical and Talmudic -- 5. The Rainbow -- 6. T'khelet-Blue -- 7. Some Hebrew Legends of the Sea -- 8. The 'Egla 'Arufa, or the Expiation of the Polluted Land -- 9. Hebrew Installation Rites -- 10. Earth Eating -- III. The Marranos of Meshhed -- 11. Folk Traditions about the History of the Meshhedi Jews -- 12. Marriage among the Marranos of Meshhed -- 13. Jewish Burial Customs in Kazvin and Meshhed -- 14. Three Meshhed Tales of Mullah Siman-Tov -- 15. A Popular "Life of Nadir" -- IV. Sephardim and Oriental Jews -- 16. Sephardi Folklore -- 17. Collectanea -- 18. Indulco and Mumia -- 19. Exorcism and Xenoglossia among the Safed Kabbalists -- 20. The Love Factor in a Hebrew-Arabic Conjuration -- V. From the Four Corners -- 21. Jewish Birth Customs -- VI. On the Peripheries -- 22. The Jewish Indians of Mexico -- 23. Venta Prieta Revisited -- 24. The Chuetas of Majorca -- Index.
Provides a rich harvest of Jewish customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from all over the world and from ancient to modern times.