Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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The Lives of Jewish Things
Publication Date: December 2024
Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.
Eating at God's Table
Publication Date: November 2023
This rich exploration of kosher Orthodox foodways and their meanings demonstrates the inadequacy of limited or simple definitions of Orthodox Jewishness and offers insight into the religious diversity in American communities.
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature
Publication Date: November 2023
This innovative reframing of early modern Musar texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and a new way to read those texts.
Salvage Poetics
Publication Date: October 2023
This book makes a fresh contribution to the fields of American Jewish cultural and literary studies and art history.
Israeli Salvage Poetics
Publication Date: October 2023
Israeli literary representations of eastern European Jewry strive, sometimes successfully, to recuperate eastern European Jewish pre-Holocaust culture for the edification of an audience that might feel responsible for the silencing and extinction of that culture.
Stories of Jewish Life
Publication Date: October 2023
Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Publication Date: September 2023
Bringing this entire spectrum into focus, Hecker ultimately considers how Kabbalists use the oral cavity and stomach, and even the emotions associated with festive meals, to produce the soul of the mystical saint.
Jewish Revival Inside Out
Publication Date: December 2022
This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
Sepher Yosippon
Publication Date: November 2022
Bowman’s translation of Flusser’s notes, as well as his own scholarship, offers a well-wrought story for scholars and students interested in Jewish legend and history in the medieval period, Jewish studies, medieval literature, and folklore studies.
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah
Publication Date: October 2021
Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.
The Angel and the Cholent
Publication Date: October 2021
Readers, scholars, and students interested in folkloristic and anthropological foodway studies or Jewish cultural studies will delight in these tales and find the editorial commentary illuminating.
Jewish Cultural Studies
Publication Date: May 2021
Students and scholars in Jewish studies, cultural studies, ethnic-religious studies, folklore, sociology, psychology, and ethnology are the intended audience for this book.
The Power of a Tale
Publication Date: November 2019
Scholars and students interested in Jewish folklore and literature will appreciate this diverse collection as well as readers interested in Jewish and Israeli culture.
The Legend of Safed
Publication Date: May 2019
The Legend of Safed is intended for students, scholars, and general readers of medieval and early modern Jewish studies, Hebrew literature, and folklore.
Concrete Boxes
Publication Date: August 2018
Concrete Boxes offers sustained reflection about Israeli reality rarely documented in scholarly work and a thought-provoking theoretical exploration of the ways in which individual agency encounters social restrictions and how social marginality is reproduced and challenged at the same time.
Overlooking the Border
Publication Date: October 2018
It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies, history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
Tales in Context
Publication Date: November 2017
The tales in Sefer ha-ma'asim will be of special value to scholars of folklore and medieval European history and literature, as well as those looking to enrich their studies and shelves.
Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin
Publication Date: February 2018
This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.
Without Bounds
Publication Date: December 2017
Human- and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity.
From Sofia to Jaffa
Publication Date: February 2018
Beginning with a study of the community in Bulgaria and the factors that motivated them to leave their homeland, this book documents the journey of the Bulgarian Jews to Israel and their adaptation to life there.
Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel
Publication Date: February 2018
In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.
For Our Soul
Publication Date: February 2018
Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, known as Falasha or Beta Israel, experienced in Israel.
Jadid Al-Islam
Publication Date: May 2014
Based on unpublished original Persian sources and interviews with members of the existing Meshhed community in Jerusalem and New York, this study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam—"New Muslims."
Erotic Infidelities
Publication Date: December 2014
Situated at the intersection of feminist, psychoanalytic, literary, and fairy-tale studies, readers interested in a variety of scholarly disciplines as well as scholars of Carter's tales will enjoy Lau's look at enduring questions of gender, sexuality, and desire.
Sister in Sorrow
Publication Date: March 2008
Students of Holocaust studies and women’s studies will be grateful for the specific and personal approach of Sister in Sorrow.
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Publication Date: December 2014
Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
Publication Date: April 2010
Anyone interested in these disciplines will appreciate this remarkable volume.
Maqam and Liturgy
Publication Date: January 2009
Maqam and Liturgy brings the fascinating culture fusion of the Syrian Jews to the attention of a wider audience, including scholars and teachers of Jewish studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
Publication Date: April 2008
The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
The Stains of Culture
Publication Date: December 2005
The Stains of Culture presents issues of meaning and interpretation in a way valuable to students of women’s studies, anthropology, minority cultural production, scholars of religion and Judaism, especially to those interested in exploring Judaism’s diversity.
Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950
Publication Date: October 2014
Originally published in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850–1950 will be welcomed by English-speaking scholars interested in the literature and culture of this period.
Aesthetics of Sorrow
Publication Date: April 2014
Her interdisciplinary perspective and her focus on a uniquely female immigrant cultural practice will make this study fascinating reading for scholars of anthropology, gender, folklore, psychology, performance, philosophy, and sociology.
Paths to Middle-Class Mobility Among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel
Publication Date: May 2013
Her volume will appeal to students and teachers of sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and Middle East studies as well as readers interested in immigration and women's studies.
The Heart Is a Mirror
Publication Date: January 2008
Jewish studies scholars, as well as those interested in folktale studies, will gain much from this fascinating and readable volume.
In the Company of Others
Publication Date: June 2015
Abuhav brings a firsthand perspective to the crises and the highs, lows, and upheavals of the discipline in Israeli anthropology, which will be of interest to anthropologists, historians of the discipline, and scholars of Israeli studies.
Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology
Publication Date: November 2009
Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology will provide an illuminating overview of the discipline for students, teachers, and researchers in the field of social anthropology.
Women Remaking American Judaism
Publication Date: August 2007
Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.
Ex-Soviets in Israel
Publication Date: May 2007
Ex-Soviets in Israel will be of interest to scholars who work in Jewish and immigration studies, modern folklore, anthropology, and sociolinguistics.
A Narrative Community
Publication Date: November 2006
Because of its unique interdisciplinary nature, A Narrative Community will be of interest to sociolinguists, folklore scholars, performance studies scholars, tourism scholars, and those interested in social discourses in Israel.
Israeli Folk Narratives
Publication Date: September 2005
Anyone interested in folk stories and Israeli culture will be enlightened by this sensitive, thought-provoking book.
King Solomon and the Golden Fish
Publication Date: August 2004
These folktales remain a powerful link between modern-day Spanish Jews and the Hispano-Jewish legacy—this collection passes along that legacy and provides a source of the customs and values of Sephardic Jews.
Unwitting Zionists
Publication Date: November 2009
Folklore, oral history, anthropology, and Israeli studies scholars, as well as anyone wanting to learn more about religion, commuity, and nationality in the Middle East will appreciate Unwitting Zionists.
Dialogic Moments
Publication Date: September 2004
In another sense, however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication and language as its quintessential loci."—From the Introduction by Tamar Katriel
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine
Publication Date: August 2004
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine sheds important light on the stagers of modern Jewish Palestine and on the processes and mechanisms that created the performative lore in other cultures, in ancient as well as modern times.
Defining the Yiddish Nation
Publication Date: November 2003
Defining the Yiddish Nation will prove invaluable for scholars of Jewish studies and Yiddish folklore.
Next Year I Will Know More
Publication Date: May 2002
In an engaging narrative that offers rare insights into a traditional society in the midst of a modern world, the author points to a community that will be more feminist—and even more religious.
The Jews of Kurdistan
Publication Date: August 1993
Patai has included additional information elicited from Kurdish Jews in Jerusalem, verified quotations, and completed the bibliography.
The Hebrew Goddess
Publication Date: September 1990
Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina.
Jewish Musical Traditions
Publication Date: May 1995
Shiloah considers technical and theoretical approaches, as well as art music, folk music, and performance practices of poets, vocalists, instrumentalists, and dancers.
Settling in the Hearts
Publication Date: April 2009
Its novel way of understanding one of the most crucial factors affecting Israeli society and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict will be of interest to Israeli and Middle Eastern studies scholars and readers wanting to learn more about the complex dynamics of politics in the Middle East.
