Heda Jason

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Heda Jason (born January 31, 1932 in Belgrade ) is an Israeli folklorist and narrative researcher . Most recently she taught at Tel Aviv University and lives in Jerusalem .

Live and act

Jason immigrated to Israel in 1949, shortly after the state was founded . She studied cultural studies of the Near and Middle East at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she completed her bachelor's degree in 1964 . From 1963 to 1964 she took courses in folklore , ethnology , linguistics and simple forms of literature at Göttingen University , then anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley , and then at Indiana University, Bloomington , where she met Dov Noy . Noy did his doctorate here and then also completed his habilitation, so Jason became his first doctoral student in 1967 . She also passed on her knowledge and research results, from 1968 to 1978 at Tel Aviv University within the Department of Poetry and Comparative Literature. Prior to that, from 1955 to 1963, she did considerable pioneering work in the field of research into the folkloric roots of the Jews by carrying out surveys of immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries of origin and recording and categorizing the traditions obtained in this way. Her collection then also formed the basis for Noy's compilation Folktales of Israel from 1963. She developed a theoretically oriented analysis method based on the writings of the Russian formalists, who were still relatively unknown in the West at the time . She combined their views with the semantic approach of the Swiss fairy tale interpreter Max Lüthi . With this combination, she created a uniform scientific framework for dealing with traditional folk goods and coined the term "ethnopoetics" for this object of investigation, for which the term "ethnotexte" is used in German. It accomplished this without the backing of a university, albeit partly under the auspices of the Israeli Institute for Ethnography. With her enthusiasm for collecting, she made a significant contribution to the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) founded by Noy in Haifa in 1955 . There are now - also thanks to Heda Jason - 21,000 "folk tales" from the 13 cultures from which today's population of Israel (mainly) originated. Of her numerous publications, the lists of folk poems, or rather ethno texts, their categorizations and the necessary categorization instructions are to be emphasized.

Fonts

  • The Structure of Jewish-Near Estern Sacred Legends. Congress manuscript (IV. Congress of Jewish Studies), 1965.
  • Jewish Narrating Art in Yemen and in Israel. In: Fabula. 8, 1966, pp. 93-106.
  • The Russian Criticism of the "Finnish Shool". In: Folktale Scholarship. February 1968.
  • A Multidimensional Approach to Oral Literature: A Proposal. 1968. (online)
  • The Narrative Structure of Swindler Tales. In: Arv. 27, 1971, pp. 141-160 (was already the lecture manuscript in 1966).
  • Jewish Near Eastern Numskull Tales. An attempt at interpretation. In: Asian Folklore Studies. 31, 1972, pp. 1-31.
  • Studies in Jewish Ethnopoetry. Oriental Cultural Service, Taipei 1975.
  • Ethnopoetics. Multilingual terminology. Israel Ethnographics Society, Jerusalem 1975.
  • Types of Oral Tales in Israel. 1975.
  • Fairy tales from Israel. 1976.
  • Ethnopoetry. Form, content, function (= Forum Theologiae Linguisticae . 11). Linguistica Biblica, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-87797-021-4 . (online) [1]
  • The Fairy Tale of the Active Heroine: An Outline for Discussion. In: Geneviève Calame-Giraule, Veronika Görög-Karady: Le Conte, pourquoi? Comment? Actes des journées d'études en littérature orale. Editions du CNRS, Paris 1982.
  • Whom Does God Favor: The Wicked or the Righteous? The Reward-and-Punishment Fairy Tale. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1988, ISBN 951-41-0570-2 .
  • "God bless you!" The legend of curse and redemption. In: Ingo Schneider (Ed.): European Ethnology and Folklore in an International Context. Festschrift for Leander Petzoldt on her 65th birthday. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34651-4 , pp. 129-144.
  • Index of Content Types for Oral Epics: A Report. In: Walther Heissig, Rüdiger Schott (ed.): The importance of oral traditions today. Your archiving, publication and indexing. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-322-83676-2 , pp. 269-278.
  • Motif, type and genre. A manual for compilation of indices & a biblio-graphy of indices and indexing Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 2000, ISBN 951-41-0879-5 .
  • Literary Aspects of the Siri Pâddana. Some preliminary observations. In: Indian Folklore Research Journal. National Folklore Support Center, Vol. 1, No. 2, May 2002, pp. 35-39.
  • King David: a Folklore Analysis of his Biography. In: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, in Hebrew and Semitic Languages. Archaeological Center Publications, Tel Aviv, Jaffa 2004, pp. 87-106.

literature

  • Heda Jason. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Volume 7, 1993, pp. 498-499.
  • Idit Pintel-Ginsberg: Jason, Heda (1932–). In: Raphael Patai, Haya Bar-Itzhak (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions . Vol. 1-2, 2015, pp. 275-276.
  • Francisco R. Demetrio: From the Grimm brothers to Heda Jason: An overview of folkloristics. In: Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. University of San Carlos Publications, Vol. 7, No. 1/2, March-June 1979, pp. 3-47, 49-50.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Idit Pintel-Ginsberg: Jason, Heda (1932–) . In: Raphael Patai, Haya Bar-Itzhak (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions . Vol. 1-2. Routledge, London / New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-7656-2025-5 , pp. 275-276 .
  2. ^ A b c d Dani Schrire, Galit Hasan-Rokem: Folklore Studies in Israel . In: Regina F. Bendix, Galit Hasan-Rokem (Ed.): A Companion to Folklore (=  Blackwell Companions to Anthropology ). Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2012, ISBN 978-1-4051-9499-0 , pp. 325-348 , 335 .
  3. ↑ Ethnotexte: Intangible Cultural Heritage - single view. In: uni-jena.de. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, accessed on September 2, 2016 .
  4. ^ Israel Folktale Archives (IFA). In: folklore.org.il. University of Haifa, accessed September 2, 2016 .
  5. ^ Israeli Folktale Archive Preserves Folklore of Jews from Many Countries. In: jta.org. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 27, 2005, accessed September 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Jason, Heda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli folklorist and narrative researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade