Research Associate
The Folklore Institute, Indiana University
Contact info: 611 N. Fess # 2D
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 857-9699
jneuland@indiana.edu
Research Interest: Judeo-Spanish traditional arts and folklore; influence on host cultures, particularly in the present day
Publications
1992. "Creating the Universe: A Study of Cosmos and Cognition" Folklore Forum, 25:1 (pp.3-18).
1994. "Crypto-Jews of the Southwest: An Imagined Community" Jewish
Folklore and Ethnology Review (JFER), 16:1
(pp. 64-68).
1996. "The New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Canon: Choosing to be 'Chosen'
in Millenial Tradition" JFER, 18:1-2 (pp. 19-58).
1998. "Jewish Oral Traditions" in Teaching Oral Tradition, ed. John Miles Foley. New York: MLA. (pp. 225-238).
Forthcoming:
2000. "Do You Bow?: Dancing to the Image of the Sabbath Queen" in JFER.
2000. "UFO Abduction Narratives: A History, Interpretation and Classification of Genre" Journal of American Folklore.
Projects in-the-works:
1. Veneration of the biblical Esther through time, in different religious
belief systems (e.g., as "Santa Ester, Reina" in Spanish
Catholicism, among other non-Jewish
and Jewish traditions).
2. A book on Judeo-Spanish cultural items still extant in the modern calendrical cycle of Iberian folk festivals.