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  • Ben-Amos, Dan

Entry Personal Name

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER

  • control field: 153093

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

  • control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

  • control field: 20260324151409.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

  • fixed length control field: 800331n| azannaabn |b aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

  • LC control number: n 50007672

024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER

  • Standard number or code: Q5213142
  • Source of number or code: wikidata

024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER

  • Standard number or code: 36927702
  • Source of number or code: viaf

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

  • Original cataloging agency: DLC
  • Language of cataloging: eng
  • Description conventions: rda
  • Transcribing agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: OCoLC
  • Modifying agency: IEN
  • Modifying agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: GVaS
  • Modifying agency: OCoLC
  • Modifying agency: NIC-HYC
  • Modifying agency: IEN

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

  • Birth date: 1934-09-03
  • Death date: 2023-03-26
  • Source of date scheme: edtf

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

  • Personal name: Ben-Amos, Dan

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

  • Place of birth: Tel Aviv (Israel)
  • Place of death: Philadelphia (Pa.)
  • Associated country: Israel
  • Associated country: United States
  • Other associated place: Nigeria
  • Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

  • Field of activity: Jews--Folklore
  • Field of activity: Jewish wit and humor
  • Field of activity: Africans--Folklore
  • Field of activity: Folklore--History
  • Source of term: lcsh

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: University of Pennsylvania
  • Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: University of Pennsylvania. Department of Folklore and Folklife
  • Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: University of California, Los Angeles
  • Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim
  • Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: American Folklore Society
  • Source of term: naf

374 ## - OCCUPATION

  • Occupation: Folklorists
  • Occupation: College teachers
  • Source of term: lcsh

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

  • Personal name: Amos, Dan Ben-

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

  • Personal name: בן־עמוס, דן

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: Dob Baer ben Samuel. In praise of Baal Shem Tov, 1970

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

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

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

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

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: The Daily Pennsylvanian (online), Folklore and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations professor Dan Ben-Amos dies at 88, April 3, 2023, viewed January 18, 2026
  • Information found: (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)
  • Uniform Resource Identifier: https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/04/penn-folklore-professor-dan-ben-amos-dies-at-88

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: Almanac (University of Pennsylvania website), vol. 70, issue 1, July 18, 2023, Dan Ben-Amos, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, viewed January 18, 2026
  • Information found: (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))
  • Uniform Resource Identifier: https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/dan-ben-amos-near-eastern-languages-civilizations

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: Wikipedia, January 18, 2026
  • Information found: (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)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

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