The Power of a Tale

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives. In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives , edit... 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

Eating at God's Table

Jody Myers

• Hardcover | 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

Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic

Amy Horowitz

• Boek | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century. The relocation of No... Lees meer

Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah

Yuval Noah Harari

• Hardcover | 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

Jewish Cultural Studies

Simon J Bronner

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches. Jewish Cultural St... Lees meer

Profiles of a Lost World

Hirsz Abramowicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II. First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles o... Lees meer

The Jews of Kurdistan

Eric Brauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. Followin... 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

Defining the Yiddish Nation

Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Jewish nationa... Lees meer

Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Raphael Patai' s (1910-1996) lifelong fascination with Arab folktales began on a Ramadan night in 1933, at a cafe in Jerusalem where, for the first ti... Lees meer

Tales in Context

Rella Kushelevsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma'asim. In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma'asi... Lees meer

Unwitting Zionists

Haya Gavish

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community's attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, an... Lees meer

Jewish Musical Traditions (Revised)

Amnon Shiloah

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Jewish Musical Traditions is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context. Amnon Shiloah,... Lees meer

A Narrative Community

Chaim Noy

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An intertextual examination of the storytelling of Israeli backpackers that analyzes their unique patterns of communication to create a thorough pictu... Lees meer

Settling in the Hearts

Michael Feige

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and s... 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

Israeli Folk Narratives

Haya Bar-Itzhak

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• The goals and challenges that face the people of Israel are vividly illustrated by the country's many folk stories. Here Haya Bar-Itzhak presents thes... Lees meer

The Legend of Safed

Eli Yassif

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century. In 1908, Solomon Schechter--discoverer of the Cairo Geniza and... 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

A Global Community

Walter P Zenner

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An interpretation of the historical experience of the Jewish community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated. The Je... 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

In the Company of Others

Orit Abuhav

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An ethnographic account of the history and development of anthropology in Israel. In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their "home"--... 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