Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

Showing results 1-50 of 56

Filter Results OPEN +

Sort by: Per page: ‹12 ›

The Lives of Jewish Things

Collecting and Curating Material Culture

Edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814350454

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

330 Pages

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

How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities

by Jody Myers

Foreword by Matt Goldish

With Jane Myers

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814349540

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

386 Pages

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

by Vered Tohar

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814350829

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

176 Pages

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

Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

by Sheila E. Jelen

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814350812

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

88 Pages

This book makes a fresh contribution to the fields of American Jewish cultural and literary studies and art history.

Israeli Salvage Poetics

by Sheila E. Jelen

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814348963

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

242 Pages

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

Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985

by Augusto Segre

Edited by Steve Siporin

Foreword by Daniel Segre

Translated by Steve Siporin

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9780814347652

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2023

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

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

Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah

by Joel Hecker

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814350935

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

296 Pages

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

Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age

Edited by Daniel Monterescu and Rachel Werczberger

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814349175

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

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

A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel

Introduction by Steven B. Bowman

Translated by Steven B. Bowman

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814349434

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

150 Pages

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

by Yuval Harari

Translated by Batya Stein

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9780814348819

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

604 Pages

Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.

The Angel and the Cholent

Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives

by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

Translated by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814348840

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

80 Pages

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

by Simon J. Bronner

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814338759

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

478 Pages

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

Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives

Edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9780814342084

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2019

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

464 Pages

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

Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

by Eli Yassif

Translated by Haim Watzman

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814346846

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2019

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

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

Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery

by Pnina Motzafi-Haller

Foreword by Virginia R. Dominguez

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814340592

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

496 Pages

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

Narratives of Divided Jerusalem

by Dana Hercbergs

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814344927

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

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

Sefer Ha-Ma'asim in Medieval Northern France

by Rella Kushelevsky

Epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten

Price: $84.99

ISBN: 9780814342718

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2017

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

280 Pages

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.

Without Bounds

The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana

by Yoram Bilu

Price: $23.99

ISBN: 9780814343241

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2017

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

192 Pages

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

The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel

by Guy H. Haskell

Foreword by Raphael Patai

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9780814344064

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

240 Pages

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 Poland—Legends of Origin

Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles

by Haya Bar-Itzhak

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9780814343913

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

200 Pages

This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel

by Aliza Shenhar and Haya Bar-Itzhak

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9780814344521

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

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

Ethiopian Jews in Israel

by Teshome Wagaw

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9780814344101

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

320 Pages

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

The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed

by Raphael Patai

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814340752

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

344 Pages

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."

Sister in Sorrow

Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary

by Ilana Rosen

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814331293

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2008

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

280 Pages

Students of Holocaust studies and women’s studies will be grateful for the specific and personal approach of Sister in Sorrow.

Erotic Infidelities

Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

by Kimberly J. Lau

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814339336

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

198 Pages

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.

Maqam and Liturgy

Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn

by Mark L. Kligman

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814332160

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2009

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

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.

Paths to Middle-Class Mobility Among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel

by Beverly Mizrachi

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814338810

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2013

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

216 Pages

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.

Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic

by Amy Horowitz

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814334652

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2010

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

Anyone interested in these disciplines will appreciate this remarkable volume.

Women Remaking American Judaism

Edited by Riv-Ellen Prell

Foreword by David Weinberg

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814332801

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2007

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

344 Pages

Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.

Ex-Soviets in Israel

From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait

by Larisa Fialkova and Maria Yelenevskaya

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9780814331699

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2007

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

392 Pages

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

Voices of Israeli Backpackers

by Chaim Noy

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814331767

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2006

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

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.

Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews

Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered

Edited by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald

Price: $46.99

ISBN: 9780814340479

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2014

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.

Aesthetics of Sorrow

The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women

by Tova Gamliel

Price: $56.99

ISBN: 9780814334768

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2014

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

464 Pages

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.

The Heart Is a Mirror

The Sephardic Folktale

by Tamar Alexander-Frizer

Price: $66.99

ISBN: 9780814329719

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2008

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

704 Pages

Jewish studies scholars, as well as those interested in folktale studies, will gain much from this fascinating and readable volume.

The Stains of Culture

An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women

by Ruth Tsoffar

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814332238

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

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.

Israeli Folk Narratives

Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity

by Haya Bar-Itzhak

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814330470

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

Anyone interested in folk stories and Israeli culture will be enlightened by this sensitive, thought-provoking book.

Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine

The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948

by Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton

Translated by Chaya Naor

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9780814328453

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2004

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

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.

In the Company of Others

The Development of Anthropology in Israel

by Orit Abuhav

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9780814338735

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2015

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

296 Pages

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.

Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950

by Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi

Price: $62.99

ISBN: 9780814328712

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2014

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

376 Pages

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.

Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology

Edited by Emanuel Marx, Esther Hertzog, Harvey E. Goldberg and Orit Abuhav

Price: $56.99

ISBN: 9780814330500

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2009

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

744 Pages

Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology will provide an illuminating overview of the discipline for students, teachers, and researchers in the field of social anthropology.

Unwitting Zionists

The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan

by Haya Gavish

Price: $56.99

ISBN: 9780814333662

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2009

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

456 Pages

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

From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture

by Tamar Katriel

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814327753

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2004

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

402 Pages

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

Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl

The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik

by Yekhezkel Kotik

Edited by David Assaf

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814334218

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2008

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

544 Pages

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.

King Solomon and the Golden Fish

Tales from the Sephardic Tradition

Edited by Matilda Koén-Sarano

Translated with commentary by Reginetta Haboucha

Preface by Yoel Perez

Price: $51.99

ISBN: 9780814331668

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2004

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

432 Pages

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.

Defining the Yiddish Nation

The Jewish Folklorists of Poland

by Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9780814326695

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2003

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

280 Pages

Defining the Yiddish Nation will prove invaluable for scholars of Jewish studies and Yiddish folklore.

Next Year I Will Know More

Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel

by Tamar El-Or

Translated by Haim Watzman

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9780814327722

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2002

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

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.

Jewish Musical Traditions

by Amnon Shiloah

Price: $23.99

ISBN: 9780814322352

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 1995

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

276 Pages

Shiloah considers technical and theoretical approaches, as well as art music, folk music, and performance practices of poets, vocalists, instrumentalists, and dancers.

The Jews of Kurdistan

by Eric Brauer

Edited by Raphael Patai

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9780814323922

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 1993

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

448 Pages

Patai has included additional information elicited from Kurdish Jews in Jerusalem, verified quotations, and completed the bibliography.

The Hebrew Goddess

by Raphael Patai

Foreword by Merlin Stone and William G. Dever

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814322710

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 1990

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

408 Pages

Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina.

Settling in the Hearts

Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories

by Michael Feige

Price: $56.99

ISBN: 9780814327500

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2009

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

352 Pages

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.

Sort by: Per page: ‹12 ›