The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho

Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community's oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative co...

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Main Author: Aloni
Other Authors: Oz.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2022.
Series:Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Ser.
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