Salvage Poetics

Sheila E Jelen

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America. This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust wr... Lees meer

Eating at God's Table

Jody Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• The practice and meaning of kosher Orthodox foodways in sustaining a vibrant and diverse community. How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use foo... Lees meer

Jewish Poland--Legends of Origin

Haya Bar-Itzhak

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Examination the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created. The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their a... Lees meer

Without Bounds

Yoram Bilu

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana. Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana... Lees meer

Sister in Sorrow

Ilana Rosen

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories. Sister in... Lees meer

The Stains of Culture

Ruth Tsoffar

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between li... Lees meer

Dialogic Moments

Tamar Katriel

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communic... Lees meer

Ex-Soviets in Israel

Larisa Fialkova, Maria Yelenevskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A groundbreaking study of personal stories from ex-Soviet immigrants in Israel, bringing together scholarship in anthropology, sociology, linguistics,... Lees meer

From Sofia to Jaffa

Guy H Haskell

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• From Sophia to Jaffa chronicles the fascinating saga of a population relocated. Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, ... Lees meer

Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• While Israel is a small country, it has a diverse and continually changing society. As a result, since the 1960s Israeli anthropology has been a ferti... Lees meer

Israeli Salvage Poetics

Sheila E Jelen

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the "negati... Lees meer

The Heart Is a Mirror

Tamar Alexander-Frizer

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the Sephardic folktale as it relates to group identity and narrative culture. Since their expulsion from S... Lees meer

Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950

Yosef Tobi, Tsivia Tobi

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Traces the development of an ethnic literature in the vernacular language of Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia between 1850 and 1950. As a result of the introdu... Lees meer

Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel is a collection of twenty-eight tales with insight into the Arab culture by Raphael Patai. Raphael Patai' s (... Lees meer

Women Remaking American Judaism

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Considers the changes in American Judaism across the four major denominations that resulted from the Jewish feminist movement of the 1960s through tod... Lees meer

Israeli Folk Narratives

Haya Bar-Itzhak

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Provides a broad, engaging view of Israeli society through folk stories that have circulated among settlers in the kibbutz, immigrants, and ethnic gro... Lees meer

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

Joel Hecker

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish my... Lees meer

Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah

Yuval Noah Harari

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period--the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, an... Lees meer

Overlooking the Border

Dana Hercbergs

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem's social history. Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jeru... Lees meer

Jewish Revival Inside Out

Asher Biemann, Shaul Magid, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Daniel Monterescu, Sara Zorandy, Genevieve Zubrzycki, Zvi Gitelman, Hannah Tzuberi

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Unravels the cultural tension inherent in projects of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future. Against the gloomy for... Lees meer

Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A state-of-the-art contribution to the scholarly discussion of historical, and especially ancient, Jewish folklore. At the beginning of the twentieth ... Lees meer

Jadid Al-Islam

Raphael Patai

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam--"New Muslims." In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jew... Lees meer

Jewish Revival Inside Out

Asher Biemann, Shaul Magid, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Daniel Monterescu, Sara Zorandy, Genevieve Zubrzycki, Zvi Gitelman, Hannah Tzuberi

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Unravels the cultural tension inherent in projects of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future. Against the gloomy for... Lees meer

Concrete Boxes

Pnina Motzafi-Haller

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community. Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Wo... Lees meer