A Bowl of Raisins, or A Thousand and One Jokes

Israeli academic and politician Dov Shtok (later Sadan) was born in Brody, Galicia (present-day Ukraine) and received a traditional Jewish education. He was a member of the He-Ḥaluts youth movement during World War I and immigrated to Palestine in 1925. Sadan wrote and edited for the newspaper Davar and the publishing house Am Oved. He was appointed head of Yiddish studies at the Hebrew University in 1952 and later taught Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University. Sadan also served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Alignment party between 1965 and 1968. Adopting a holistic approach to Jewish literature in all languages, he produced innumerable studies in Jewish intertextuality.