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  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
  • King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition by Ko book cover
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King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition

by Ko

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Fifty-four tales from the Judeo-Spanish tradition

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Fifty-four tales from the Judeo-Spanish tradition

This collection brings together 54 folktales from a storytelling tradition shaped by centuries of Sephardic history and contact with surrounding cultures. The source description places these stories within a tradition passed on orally, where tales served both to entertain and to teach. It also points to their value as depictions of Sephardic communities through the first half of the twentieth century. Together, those strands make the book a window onto how stories carried customs, wisdom, and values across generations.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Sephardic history and culture
  • Those exploring folklore and oral storytelling traditions
  • Readers seeking collections of traditional tales with cultural context

Themes

Sephardic heritageJudeo-Spanish oral traditionCustoms and valuesFolklore as teaching and entertainment

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Book overview

Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages, Spanish Jews were known for their linguistic skills, and as translators and storytellers they were the main transmitters of Eastern/Islamic culture to the Christian world. Derived from a distinguished heritage, Judeo-Spanish storytelling has evolved over a five-hundred-year historical journey. Constant contact with the surrounding societies of the past and with modern Israeli influences, making it more universal than other Sephardic oral genres. Told in order to entertain but also to teach, Judeo-Spanish folktales convey timeless wisdom and a colorful depiction of Sephardic communities up to the first half of the twentieth century.

King Solomon and the Golden Fish is a selection of fifty-four folktales taken from Matilda Ko

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