The Israeli Proverb Index Project

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The Israeli Proverb Index Project is a major effort of collection and documentation of proverbs of Israeli communities. The archive has been collected by the scholars Folklore Research Center, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the scientific supervision of Hasan-Rokem, a prominent researcher of Jewish folklore and literature at the Hebrew University.

The archive contains proverbs in Jewish and non-Jewish languages and dialects spoken by the Jewish communities in Israel and diaspora: Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic (of Iraq, Morocco and Yemen), Arabic, German, Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Judeo-Georgian and others. The documentation process serves the ethnocentric research methodology, that studies not only the proverbial texts, but also the wide ethnographic context of proverbs: how a proverbs is used, its metaphoric constituents, inter-textual parallels, lyric characteristics etc. Besides, proverbial entries contain archival metadata for reference: informant name and origin, date of recording and source (where and how the proverb was used).

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