A Companion to Folklore

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Regina Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at Georg-August-University in Göttingen Germany. She is the author of In Search of Authenticity and has co-edited Prädikat Heritage (with Dorothee Hemme and Markus Tauschek) Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven (with Kilian Bizer and Stefan Groth) and Culture and Property (Special Issue of Ethnologia Europaea co-edited with Valdimar Hafstein). Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature and Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity. She is a published poet in Hebrew and translation and has co-edited The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (with Shirley Kaufman and Tamar Hess).