Archival Negotiations: Samaritan Narratives and the Israel Folktale Archives

Dina Stein

doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.0005

Archival Negotiations: Samaritan Narratives and the Israel Folktale Archives

Dina Stein

Department of Hebrew & Comparative Literature

University of Haifa

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Abstract

In 1965, the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) published a small anthology of Samaritan folktales. The article addresses a letter (found at the archive) concerning the publication as well as the poetic aspects of the anthology itself and explores the cultural-political negotiations they entail. I argue that the same-other relationship that characterizes Zionist Jews and Samaritans is staged and embodied in these archival negotiations, manifested in a variety of sources. I suggest that despite their unique characteristics, these archival dynamics may be an intensified example of, rather than an exception to IFA practices.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	130-150
Number of pages	21
Journal	Narrative Culture
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.0005
State	Published - 1 Mar 2023

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Language and Linguistics
Anthropology
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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