"The stories here come from twenty-six different ethnic communities, according to the IFA classification. There are twenty-two Jewish communities: Afghanistan (2 stories), Belarus (2), Bulgaria (1), Ethiopia (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (2), Iraq (3), Iraqi Kurdistan (1), Israel (2), Israel, Ashkenazi (3), Israel, Sephardi (2), Lithuania (1), Morocco (7), Poland (6), Romania (2), Tunisia (2), Yemen (2), and Yogoslavia, Sephardi (1). There are also four non-Jewish groups: Bedouin (2), Druze (2), Muslim Arab (4), and Christian Arab (1)."--The Introduction, pages xxix-xxx
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