More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Here he worked as revising editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and later taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1900 he migrated with his family to the United States of America. From 1899-1900, he also edited the British journal, Folklore. He was inspired in his endeavours by the work of the Brothers Grimm. Other collections of folklore that he edited include Celtic Fairy Tales (1892), Indian Fairy Tales (1892), The Fables of Aesop (1894), The Book of Wonder Voyages (1896), and European Folk and Fairy Tales (1916). Some are ballads, some are close to myths, some are nonsense stories, and there are even half a dozen fables and a nursery rhyme amongst them. Not all of the eighty-seven stories in these two volumes are fairy tales as per the strict definition of the term. The most famous of these collections is perhaps English Fairy Tales (1890), and More English Fairy Tales (1893). From 1890 to 1916 he edited several collections of fairy tales. It was at this time, too, that he began to develop an interest in folklore. After his return to England the following year, he became actively involved in opposing anti-Semitism and in the study, preservation and promotion of Jewish history and culture. Staunchly opposed to such sentiments, he moved to Berlin in 1877, to study Jewish Literature and philosophy. In Britain, Jacobs became aware of widespread anti-semitism. There, he joined St John’s College at University of Cambridge from where he graduated in 1876. After completing his schooling, he won a scholarship to the University of Sydney for classics, mathematics and chemistry, but immigrated to England at the age of eighteen, in 1872. He was born in Sydney, Australia on August 29, 1854, the sixth son of John Jacobs and his wife Sarah.

These included such perennials as ‘Jack the Giant Killer’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, and ‘The Story of the Three Bears’ (a version of which became famous as ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’). In 1890, he published English Fairy Tales and in 1893, More English Fairy Tales.

Though a prolific writer and literary critic, he is best remembered today for his works on folklore and fairy tales. Mothuighim boladh an Éireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhóidín dúthaigh.Ī loose translation of this Gaelic phrase is 'I sense the smell of a sweet, enchanting Irishman around my dear homeplace.Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was a folklorist and a scholar of Jewish history and culture. _SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes shut_/ At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: Download cover art Download CD case insert Celtic Fairy TalesĬeltic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland.

More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs