The Jew and the Barber : About the Particular and the General.

H. Jason

Expert InsightsPublished 1968

An examination of the phenomenon of national peculiarity in literature as it relates to the sacred tale in which the hero is not an individual but a community. Four circumstances support the supposition that the origin of these tales is exclusively Jewish: They deal with Jewish national problems; they are told before exclusively Jewish audiences; they exist in exclusively Jewish homiletic literature; they are not found in any other culture. An analysis of the content and form of four Jewish texts and one Chinese text reveals that a universal literary model has been used and filled with a content appropriate to the particular culture. 23 pp. Refs.

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