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Jewish Studies

Folklore and Anthropology

Bar-Itzhak: Jewish Poland Legends of OriginJewish Poland—Legends of Origin: Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles

Haya Bar-Itzhak

An examination of how a Jewish community creates and maintains its identity through narratives of origin.

Bar: A Letter That Has Not Been ReadA Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible

Shaul Bar

An study of dreams and visions that appear in the Hebrew Bible.

Bilu: Without BoundsWithout Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya’aqov Wazana

Yoram Bilu

A journey in the footsteps of a mysterious Moroccan Jewish healer.

Zenner: A Global CommunityA Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria

Walter P. Zenner

A study of ethnic integration and continuity within a Sephardic Jewish community.

Abramson: Modern Jewish MythologiesModern Jewish Mythologies

Edited by Glenda Abramson

A series of essays that explore the complex relationship between myth and ritual in modern Jewish culture.

Abramowicz: Profiles of a Lost WorldProfiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II

Hirsz Abramowicz  •  Translated by Eva Zeitlin Dobkin  •  Edited by Dina Abramowicz and Jeffrey Shandler

Essays by a dedicated Jewish teacher, activist, and author offer a rare account of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust.