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(Neuman) Doctorate thesis "Motif-Index of Talmudic-Midrashic Literature The
original work as a PDF file Jewish
motif list in Thompson's index Searching
the Thompson Jewish motifs Reproduced with permission of the
copyright owner: Amos, Izhar & Chaim Noy. © Further reproduction prohibited
without permission
Dov Noy (Neuman) was born in Kolomyia,
Poland, in 1920 and died on September 29, less than a month short of his 93rd
birthday. He immigrated to Israel in 1939, studied at Hebrew University, and
began teaching Jewish folk literature in 1955. For his dissertation, which he
received from Indiana University, he created a motif-index of Talmudic-Midrashic tales which was soon
incorporated into Stith Thompson’s six-volume motif-index of the world’s folk
literature, greatly raising the status of Jewish folklore in the field. The Israel Folktale Archives that Noy founded in 1955 eventually amassed thousands of
texts, many of them now appearing in English translation in the multi-volume
series “Folktales of the Jews,” edited by Dov Noy’s student, Dan Ben-Amos. |
