In 1962 the Ethnological Museum and Folklore Archives of Israel initiated a new series of folktale collections. Since then, two to four volumes have appeared each year, so that the Israel Folktale Archives Publication Series now stands at the substantial number of fifteen books and booklets. In addition to the texts, each of these include notes, type and motif indexes, and summaries in English, all of which make the small volumes valuable not only to the student of Judaica but to the comparative folklorist as well.