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 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

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

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

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

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

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
• 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

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

The Angel and the Cholent

Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives. The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Arch... 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

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

Maqam and Liturgy

Mark L Kligman

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music. Syrian Jews ... 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

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

Concrete Boxes

Pnina Motzafi-Haller

• Paperback | 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

Spirit Possession in Judaism

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A rich, multidisciplinary exploration of spirit possession among Jews. This extraordinary collection of essays is the first to approach the phenomenon... Lees meer

King Solomon and the Golden Fish

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A collection of fifty-four Judeo-Spanish folktales taken from the rich heritage of Sephardic oral storytelling and translated into English for the fir... Lees meer

Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel

Beverly Mizrachi

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Investigates class mobility in a group of 40-50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel. ... Lees meer

Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Jewish dance. In Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, choreographer, dancer, and dance scholar Judit... Lees meer