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About meI am a professor of American Studies and Folklore at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.

About my librarybooks, videos, papers, and visual materials (photographs, prints, slides) on folklore and folklife, ethnic history and culture (especially Pennsylvania Germans, Jews, Japanese), material and visual culture (especially folk art, craft, and architecture), and American studies generally.

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The Scottish Highland Games in America by Emily Ann Donaldson

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We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 by Hasia Diner

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Strength: and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow

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Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) by Alan M. Klein

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Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics by Wolfgang Mieder

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs by Wolfgang Mieder

Thanks. I'm going to keep searching for a copy. Dan Ben-Amos's series on The Folktales of the Jews is indeed wonderful. I keep waiting for the next volume to come out. I particularly liked the second volume, on Eastern European tales. Anyway, thanks for your response. The Hebrew Folktale is one of two books I have been dying to find (the other I am beginning to think I will never find - The World of the Russian Fairy Tale by Maria Kravchenko. I don't have access to an academic library, but was able to borrow it for a short period through inter-library loan. Too short - only 3 weeks. I really need more time than that, though, for these kinds of books. I like to read them slowly as I also read the tales they're talking about. And, since they are theoretical, of course, I have to take them in small doses alongside plenty of more-readable fiction. I pretty much have to find my own copy to really enjoy them.

Cindy

posted by malinablue at 9:09 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

Hi, I hope you won't mind a quick question. I see in your library Eli Yassif's The Hebrew Folktale - History, Genre, Meaning. Have you read it? Is is very good? Does it perhaps cover both biblical stories and legends and fairy tales? Sorry to bug you with 20 questions here. But I have been looking for ages for that book and am wondering what it's like. It is currently out of print, though Indiana has told me that they will, soon I hope, make it available again. I'm a bit impatient though, and will continue to hunt down a copy now if it sounds promising. I've read your book on children's folklore, by the way, and really enjoyed it. I read pretty much everything I can find in folklore, fairy tale, and myth.

Cindy

posted by malinablue at 3:40 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2009

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