Ben-Amos, Dan (Personal Name)

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Dob Baer ben Samuel. In praise of Baal Shem Tov, 1970

Info. converted from 678, 2012-09-24 (b. 1934; ass't prof., folkore and folklife program, Univ. of Penn.)

Tiḳshoret ba-masoret, 2025: back cover (collection of 9 articles written by Dan Ben-ʻAmos, lived 1934-2023)

The Daily Pennsylvanian (online), Folklore and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations professor Dan Ben-Amos dies at 88, April 3, 2023, viewed January 18, 2026 (born in Tel Aviv in 1934; studied Hebrew and English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ph.D. in Folklore 1967, Indiana University Bloomington; he began teaching at Penn also in 1967; Professor of African, Jewish, and Middle Eastern Folklore in the Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Department; he also served as professor and chairman of the Department of Folklore and Folklife; this semester, he taught classes on Jewish folklore and humor until just a week before spring break; he was a world-renowned specialist in folklore and folklife, trained in the comparativist tradition; published a number of books and articles on Jewish folklore, including Folktales of the Jews. Volume 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion (2006); received the American Folklore Society Lifetime Scholarly Award in 2014; died on March 26, age 88) https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/04/penn-folklore-professor-dan-ben-amos-dies-at-88

Almanac (University of Pennsylvania website), vol. 70, issue 1, July 18, 2023, Dan Ben-Amos, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, viewed January 18, 2026 (BA 1961, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; MA (1964) and PhD (1967), Indiana University at Bloomington; while earning his PhD he spent a year as assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; joined the faculty at Penn immediately after graduating in 1967, as assistant professor of anthropology; promoted to associate professor in 1971; became a full professor of folklore and folklife in 1977; in 1999 he joined Penn's department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies; when that department was split in 2004, he joined the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations; edited a series of translations of folklore classics by European scholars; his books include Sweet words : storytelling events in Benin (1975), Cultural memory and the construction of identity (1999) co-edited with Liliane Weissberg, and Folklore concepts : histories and critiques (2020)) https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/dan-ben-amos-near-eastern-languages-civilizations

Wikipedia, January 18, 2026 (Dan Ben-Amos; born September 3, 1934, Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, and grew up in Petah Tiva; before beginning studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he served in the Nahal Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces; toward the end of his education and beginning of his career, he was considered part of a group of young folklorists affectionately labeled "the Young Turks" by folklorist Richard Dorson, focusing on context rather than just the text and its content; before beginning an assistant professorship in anthropology at UCLA 1966-1967, he conducted folklore research in Nigeria on the oral tradition of the Edo people in Benin City and surroundings, arriving on January 15, 1966, the day of the first military coup; his scholarly interests include Jewish folklore, African folklore, humor, the history of folklore, and structural analysis)

Facebook, American Folklore Society page, posting March 27, 2023, viewed January 18, 2026 (folklorist Dan Ben-Amos died yesterday, March 26, in Philadelphia)