Alexander: The Heart Is a Mirror

The Heart Is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale

Tamar Alexander-Frizer

Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

The Heart Is a Mirror, first written in Hebrew and now well translated into English, offers new approaches to the study of oral transmission and is a major contribution to the field.”

—Moshe Lazar, professor of comparative literature at the University of Southern California and author of The Sephardic Tradition: Ladino and Spanish-Jewish Literature and other books