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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli Salvage Poetics

Sheila E Jelen

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• The incorporation of eastern European culture in Israeli Hebrew-language literature. Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-centur... Lees meer

Aesthetics of Sorrow

Tova Gamliel

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Investigates the socio-cultural, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the Yemenite Jewish wailing tradition in modern Israel. The term "wailing... 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

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

Sepher Yosippon

Steven B Bowman

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Je... Lees meer

Our Lives Are But Stories

Esther Schely-Newman

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A rich analysis of how four Tunisian-Israeli women tell the stories of their lives, and a look at the implications for our own understanding of storie... 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