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religious. Hebrew fables supply one of the links connecting the popular literature of the East with that of the West. But they hardly belong in the true sense to Jewish literature. Parables, on the other hand, were an essential and characteristic branch of that literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Midrash.
- Schiller-Szinessy.—Encycl. Brit., Vol. XVI, p. 285.
- Graetz.—II, p. 328 [331] seq.
- Steinschneider.—Jewish Literature, pp. 5 seq., 36 seq.
- L. N. Dembitz—Jewish Services in Synagogue and Home (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1898), p. 44.
Fables.
- J. Jacobs.—The Fables of Æsop (London, 1889). I, p. 110 seq.
- Read also Schechter, Studies in Judaism, p. 272 [331]; and J. Q. R. (Kohler), V, p. 399; VII, p. 581; (Bacher) IV, p. 406; (Davis) VIII, p. 529; (Abrahams) I, p. 216; II, p. 172; Chenery. Legends from the Midrash (Miscellany of the Society of Hebrew Literature, Vol. II).
