Raphael Patai Series in 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.

Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II.

This is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context.

Surveys past and present research on Israeli anthropology for students and researchers.

A groundbreaking study of personal stories from ex-Soviet immigrants in Israel, bringing together scholarship in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, semiotics, and social psychology.

An investigation into the education of women in the religious Zionist community and its influence on Orthodox Judaism.

Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music.

Investigates class mobility in a group of 40­­-50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel.

A collection of fifty-four Judeo-Spanish folktales taken from the rich heritage of Sephardic oral storytelling and translated into English for the first time.

An interpretation of the historical experience of the Jewish community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated.

An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars.

Describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place.