Subject Guide: Folklore

• Jewish Folklore as Counterculture by Dan Ben-Amos - Association for Jewish Studies
• Modern Jewish History: The Golem by Alden Oreck - Jewish Virtual Library
• Monsters, Demons, and Other Mystical Creatures in Jewish Lore - My Jewish Learning

YIVO Encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. This website makes accurate, reliable, scholarly information about East European Jewish life accessible to everyone.

• An-ski Ethnographic Expedition and Museum-YIVO Encyclopedia

• Elijah the Prophet - YIVO Encyclopedia 

• Folklore, Ethnography, and Anthropology - YIVO Encyclopedia

• Golem Legend - YIVO Encyclopedia 

• Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture-YIVO Encyclopedia

• Leib Yehudah Cahan - YIVO Encyclopedia

• Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport - YIVO Encylopedia

• Wise Men of Chelm - YIVO Encyclopedia