Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Editorial Note 9
4. Collector’s Foreword 11
5. Preface 14
6. ESSAYS
7. Reflections on Fables and Jewish Literature 17
8. Fables in the Hebrew Bible and in Rabbinic Literature 28
9. Foxes, Fables, and Gender-Change—Mashal and Paroimia 39
10. Fables in Yiddish Literature 45
11. The Fable and the Problem of Jewish Literature 54
12. Ancient Hebrew Fables: The Inaugural Lecture of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies 66
13. The Sephardic Meshal ha-Kadmoni as an Ashkenazic German Manuscript (ms. Heb. 107, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) 81
14. CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
15. Bibliographical Principles 96
16. Annotated Catalogue 105
17. Bibliography of Fables in Jewish Literature 455
18. APPENDICES
19. 1. Abbreviations 489
20. 2. Index of Individual Fables 490
21. 3. Index of Authors 495
22. 4. Index of Editors and Translators 499
23. 5. Index of Printers, Publishers, and Financiers 501
24. 6. Index of Titles in English or in English Translation 507
25. 7. Index of Full Titles in Hebrew Script 512
26. 8. Index of Full Titles in Latin Script 530
27. 9. Index of Printing Places 534
28. 10. Index of Languages 537
29. 11. Index of Illustrated Books 539
30. 12. Letter from Jack V. Lunzer 541
31. Notes on Contributors 542
32. General Index 547
33. Colophon 565