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A Dictionary of Folklore / David Pickering. New York : Facts on File, 1999.
A prelude to biblical folklore : underdogs and tricksters / Susan Niditch. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2000.
A Treasury of Jewish Folklore : Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom and Folk Songs of the Jewish People / Edited by Nathan Ausubel. New York : Crown Publishers, C, 1948.
Festivals, folklore & philosophy : a secularist revisits Jewish traditions / Max Rosenfeld. Philadelphia, PA : Sholom Aleichem Club, c1997.
Folktales of the Canadian Sephardim / André E. Elbaz ; illustrated by Raphael Benchetrit, translated from the French under the auspices of the National Museum of Man. Toronto. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1982.
Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk religion / Joshua Trachtenberg. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
Jewish folklore and ethnology review / Harrisburg, PA : Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society, 1987.
Judaeo-Spanish folk-tales in Macedonia / Cynthia Crews. [London]: [Folklore Society], [1932].
Lights along the path : Jewish folklore through the grades for children age four to twelve / annotated, selected, and retold by Rebecca Schacht, illustrated by Jacqui Morgan. Beverly Hills, CA : Chelsey Press, c1999.
Sephardic studies : a research bibliography incorporating Judezmo language, literature and folklore, and historical background / David M. Bunis. New York : Garland Pub., 1981.
Studies in Biblical and Jewish folklore / edited by Raphael Patai, Francis Lee Utley [and] Dov Noy. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1960].
The Bride Who Argued with God : Tales from the Treasury of Jewish Folklore / Compiled, Translated and Retold by Hava Ben-Zvi. New York : iUniverse, 2006.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism / Geoffrey W. Dennis. Woodbury, MN : Llewellyn Publications, 2007.
Yiddish Folktales / edited by Beatrice Silverman Weinreich, translated by Leonard Wolf. New York : Schocken Books, 1997.
Yiddish language and folklore, : a selective bibliography for research / Uriel Weinrch and Beatrice Weinrich. Mouton, 1959.