Telling the News,” a Chapter of Joseph the Provider

NotesDichtung und Wahrheit, first part, fourth book, Jubiläums-Ausgabe, XXII, 165.The best known collection is the Hebrew Sefer ha-Jachar (“Book of Honest People”), an anonymous edition of Biblical legends. A printed edition appeared in Venice in 1630.Micha Josef bin Gorion, therefore, edited the Joseph stories under the title Joseph und seine Brüder: Ein altjüdischer Roman, Berlin, 1938.—The latest English edition of Jewish legends appeared under the title The Legends of Israel, Translated from the Hebrew of I. B. Levner by Joel Snowman, Vol. I: From the Creation to the Death of Joseph, With foreword by Cecil Roth, London, 1946.Hugo von Hofmannsthal once wrote about the creative significance of the Biblical subjects: “Nach außen hin setzen sie die Phantasie der Welt unabhängig in Bewegung, so dieser vom ägyptischen Joseph, an welchem, nach so vielen Musikern, Malern und Dichtern, auch Goethe nicht unberührt vorüber gegangen ist.“—Josephs legende, Handlung von Harry Graf Kessler und Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Musik von Richard Strauss (Berlin, 1914), p. 11.Snowman gave to this legend the title “Everlasting Life” (pp. 105 ff. of his edition). In bin Gorion’s edition it is the thirty-ninth chapter (pp. 75 ff.).In the German edition “Verkündigung"—Joseph der Ernährer (Stockholm, 1943), pp. 504 ff.; American edition: Joseph the Provider (New York, 1944), pp. 323 ff. Rede und Antwort (Berlin, 1922), p. 369.Joseph and His Brothers (New York, 1945), I, 54

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