The Power of a Tale

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Brings together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) at the University of ... Lees meer

Jewish Revival Inside Out

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

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Against the gloomy forecast of ‘The Vanishing Diaspora’, the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultu... Lees meer

Eating at God's Table

Jody Myers, Matt Goldish

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries, distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox com... Lees meer

Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah

Yuval Noah Harari

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

Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• This collection studies the cultural tradition of the ""qassas"", or storyteller, and the Arab folktale. The annotated stories offer an insight into A... Lees meer

Dialogic Moments

Tamar Katriel

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Traces the ways utopian visions of communication have played themselves out in particular contexts of Israeli society through the twentieth century, e... Lees meer

Settling in the Hearts

Michael Feige

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in 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

A Global Community

Walter P. Zenner

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in 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. It poi... Lees meer

The Heart is a Mirror

Tamar Alexander-Frizer

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Examines the folk narratives of Sephardic Jews to view them both in relation to universal narrative traditions and the traditions of Jewish culture. T... Lees meer

Overlooking the Border

Dana Hercbergs

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian perso... Lees meer

In the Company of Others

Orit Abuhav

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their “home”- in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others by ... Lees meer

Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950

Yosef Tobi, Tsivia Tobi

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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The Hebrew Goddess

Raphael Patai

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, ... Lees meer

Our Lives are But Stories

Esther Schely-Newman

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Organized by themes of childhood, marriage, motherhood, immigration and old age, this study provides an analysis of how four Tunisian-Israeli women te... Lees meer

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

Joel Hecker

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyses how the Zohar and other esoteric literature r... Lees meer

Ex-Soviets in Israel

Larisa Fialkova, Maria N. Yelenevskaya

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews migrated at an unprecedented rate to Israel. Here, ex-Soviets tell their immigr... Lees meer

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

Vered Tohar

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewi... Lees meer

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

Joel Hecker

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-13th-century Spai... Lees meer

The Legend of Safed

Eli Yassif

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• In 1908, Solomon Schechter published his groundbreaking essay on the city of Safed (Tzfat) during the sixteenth century. In The Legend of Safed, Eli Y... Lees meer

Jewish Revival Inside Out

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

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• The trope of a ‘Jewish Renaissance’ has become both a descriptive category of a popular and scholarly discourse across the globe, and a prescriptive m... Lees meer

For Our Soul

Teshome G. Wagaw

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. As the sole Jewish community from sub-Sahara Africa in Israel, the Ethiopian... Lees meer

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel

Aliza Shenhar, Haya Bar-Itzhak

• Paperback | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Focuses on two central elements: textual research to examine the aesthetic qualities of the narrative, their division into genres, the various version... Lees meer

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

Vered Tohar

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewi... Lees meer

The Angel and the Cholent

Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

• Hardcover | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, this bok analyses how food and foodways are the major agents generating the plots of several s... Lees meer