Yazar: Batsheva Ben-Amos

Batsheva Ben-Amos is Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature in the College of Professional and Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a practicing clinician and has written about Holocaust diaries. Dan Ben-Amos is Professor of Folklore and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of numerous titles, including Sweet Words, Folklore in Context, Jewish Folk Literature, ( in Hebrew and Russian), and a translator of In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov (with Jerome R.Mintz). He is editor of Folklore Genres, Folktales of the Jews (volumes 1–3 ), Folklore: Performance and Communication (with Kenneth S. Goldstein) and of Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity (with Liliane Weissberg).