The contributors to this volume are scholars whose specialty is folklore. Papers in this volume include such diverse subjects as: letters from Eliakum Zunser, some wedding-greetings in Arabic among the Jews of Urfa and Aleppo, material concerning Jews in Polish ethnographical literature, the complete "Midrash Vayisa'u", the family life as reflected in the proverbs of Babylonian Jews, night prayers by the dead, an outline of the development of humor, on the popularity of the legend of Beruriah, wife of Rabbi Meir, the lion in proverbs, the Baha'i community of Acre, about the traditional system of prose of the funeral songs recited by the Jewish women of the S.R.R, the narrative context of the Bedouin qasidah-poem, the zoologically tinged stages of man's existence, etc.
