Looking for book of Jewish Legends

[Malvina D. Engelberg]

I'm looking for a collection of Jewish Legends, Myths, Anecdotes, etc. reference Jewish travel and/or the Wandering Jew.

Any suggestions?
Malvina Engelberg

[Tiberiu Weisz]

Are Jewish travelers' account, stories, myths and legends from Central Asia, China, India -Middle Ages period- of interest to you?
Tibi Weisz

[Malvina Engelberg]

Yes, thank you. That would be very helpful.

[Tiberiu Weisz]

Y. L. Lebner: All the Legends of Israel" from Creation to Rabbi Elazar. _ I havde the Hebrew version, but I know that there is one in English too (2 Vol)

Jacob d'Aconan, The City of Lights (translated by David Selbourne) - Travel from Italy to China in the 14th century. Many tales and legends of Jews from Italy to India, Malyesia China.

Emanuel Ben Gorion, Mimekor Yisrael, Selected folktales

The travels of David d' Beth Hillel, - the original was published in Jewish Social Scuence ? 1944. - Intresting stories of Jews in Central Asia

Xuxin, Legend of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, based on the Chinese inscriptions in Kaifeng.

I hope this helps

[Malvina Engelberg]

It certainly does. Thank you for taking the time to send these to me.

Not too long ago, I read the City of Lights and really enjoyed it--at least until I read an article in which it was claimed that the entire book was untrue. Have you heard anything like that about this book?

Malvina

[Tiberiu Weisz]

Yes, I have heard and read the book and I even used it in my research. I truly believe that the book is authentic, it fits and corroborates other stories and events in the history of China. When I read the book I could feel both the Jewish and the Chinese culture interact. Chinese officials had a great deal of respect for learned man, and the observations made by Jacob, the Jewish captain, were very keen, considering the fact that he could not communicate directly. Those who questioned the authenticity of this book, did not provided one single evidence to support their claim.
I have done research on China in general ( I read Chinese) and the Jews in China in particular (wrote 2 books about the subject) and the places, events , customs etc. described in the book were corroborated by Chinese gazetteers from that time.
Tibi

[Naomi]

not sure if this helps, but... http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.com/

[Rachel Resnick]

Yes! Totally amazing, exhaustive one -- handsomely bound -- is edited by Bialik/Ravnitzky. That should be enough info to find it. It's called THE JEWISH BOOK OF LEGENDS: Sefer Ha-Aggadah.