Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology – serie
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Lives of Jewish Things
Collecting and Curating Material Culture
Av Gabrielle Anna Berlinger, Ruth von Bernuth
Häftad, 2024
401 kr
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Settling in the Hearts
Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories
Inbunden, 2009
680 kr
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This title describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. Gush Emunim traces its roots to the 1967 Six Day War and the development of a Greater Israel ideology, which sought to …
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah
Av Yuval Harari
Häftad, 2021
471 kr
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Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts? Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness, the …
Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel
Häftad, 1998
415 kr
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Raphael Patai's (1910-1996) lifelong fascination with Arab folktales began on a Ramadan night in 1933, at a cafe in Jerusalem where, for the first time, he heard a famous ""qassas"", a storyteller, tirelessly relate story after story from his vast repertoire of Arab folktales. In ""Arab Folktales …
Jewish Musical Traditions
Häftad, 1995
270 kr
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This work provides an analysis of Jewish music. Drawing upon hundreds of sources, it explains what constitutes Jewish music and the socio-cultural context in which it evolved.
Hebrew Goddess
Häftad, 1990
387 kr
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The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina.
Defining the Yiddish Nation
The Jewish Folklorists of Poland
Inbunden, 2003
519 kr
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This work brings together a collection of Yiddish folklore from Poland, between the two world wars. It examines the evolution of Yiddish folklore and its role in creation of Yiddish nationalism, focussing on three important folklore circles, including the Warsaw group.
Next Year I Will Know More
Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel
Av Tamar El-Or
Inbunden, 2002
518 kr
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In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently, women have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes the Talmud and midrashic books. But the situation is changing, partly because of the special emphasis …
Dialogic Moments
From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture
Häftad, 2004
334 kr
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The vision of communication as authentic dialogue, as the mutual communion of souls, has animated a great many twentieth century discussions of language and communication, both in scholarly writings and in various forms and contexts of popular culture. In its various manifestations, this …
Profiles of a Lost World
Memoirs of East European Jewish Life Before World War II
Av Hirsz Abramowicz, Dina Abramowicz
Inbunden, 1999
563 kr
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First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, ""Profiles of a Lost World"" is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II as well as an touchstone for understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer and …
Global Community
The Jews from Aleppo, Syria
Inbunden, 2000
563 kr
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The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known community that has spread throughout the world during the past two centuries, adapting to myriad social settings from Kobe to Buenos Aires. A Global Community is the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation …
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine
The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
Av Yaacov Shavit, Shoshana Sitton
Inbunden, 2004
575 kr
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This case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities - an inseparable part of every culture. In the case of the new modern Hebrew culture of Eretz Israel (modern Jewish Palestine) - a society of immigrants that left …
Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950
Inbunden, 2014
841 kr
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As a result of the introduction of the printing press in the mid-nineteenth century and the proximity of European culture, language, and literature after the French occupation in 1881, Judeo-Arabic literature flourished in Tunisia until the middle of the twentieth century. As the most spoken …
Our Lives Are but Stories
Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women
Inbunden, 2002
475 kr
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Our Lives Are But Stories explores the crucial role of personal storytelling in the lives of a unique generation of women - Jewish women who left the Muslim country of Tunisia to settle in the newly created Israeli state. To this day, the older generation of Tunisian Israelis continues to rely on …
Heart Is a Mirror
The Sephardic Folktale
Inbunden, 2008
774 kr
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Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these Sephardic groups are Judeo-Spanish folktales, …
Spirit Possession in Judaism
Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present
Av Matt Goldish
Inbunden, 2003
547 kr
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This extraordinary collection of essays is the first to approach the phenomenon of spirit possession among Jews from a multidisciplinary perspective. What beliefs have Jews held about spirit possession? Have Jewish people believed themselves to be possessed by spirits? If so, what sorts of spirits …
Israeli Folk Narratives
Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity
Häftad, 2005
359 kr
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The goals and challenges that face the people of Israel are vividly illustrated by the country's many folk stories. Here Haya Bar-Itzhak presents these tales - gathered from the early settlers of the kibbutz, from immigrants who arrived in Israel after independence, and from ethnic groups - to …
Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology
Av Esther Hertzog, Orit Abuhav m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
632 kr
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This title surveys past and present research on Israeli anthropology for students and researchers. While Israel is a small country, it has a diverse and continually changing society. As a result, since the 1960s Israeli anthropology has been a fertile ground for researchers. This collection …
Sister in Sorrow
Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary
Av Ilana Rosen
Häftad, 2008
344 kr
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This is a compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories.""Sister in Sorrow"" offers a glimpse into the world of Hungarian Holocaust survivors through the stories of fifteen survivors, as told by thirteen …
King Solomon and the Golden Fish
Tales from the Sephardic Tradition
Inbunden, 2004
604 kr
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Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages, Spanish Jews were known for their linguistic skills, and as translators and storytellers they were the main transmitters of Eastern/Islamic culture to the Christian …
Ex-Soviets in Israel
From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait
Av Larisa Fialkova, Maria N. Yelenevskaya
Inbunden, 2007
618 kr
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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 immigration experiences, allowing readers to explore this topic directly through immigrants' thoughts, memories, and feelings, rather than artifacts like …
Narrative Community
Voices of Israeli Backpackers
Av Chaim Noy
Häftad, 2006
373 kr
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Backpacking, or Tarmila'ut, has been a time-honored rite of passage for young Israelis for decades. Shortly after completing their mandatory military service, young people set off on extensive backpacking trips to ""exotic"" and ""authentic"" destinations in so-called Third World regions in India, …
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Av Joel Hecker
Inbunden, 2005
1087 kr
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Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature …
Maqam and Liturgy
Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
2009
698 kr
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This book explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music. Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York, number more than forty thousand and constitute the largest single group of Jews from Syria in the world. Their …
Stains of Culture
An Ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish Women
Av Ruth Tsoffar
Häftad, 2005
319 kr
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A minority within Judaism, the Karaites are known as ""reading community"" - one that looks to the Bible as the authority in all areas of life, including intimate relations and hygiene. Here Ruth Tsoffar considers how Egyptian Kariates of the San Francisco Bay Area define themselves, within both …
Unwitting Zionists
The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan
Av Haya Gavish
Häftad, 2009
632 kr
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Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the end of the Ottoman period until the disappearance of the community through aliyah by 1951. Because of its remote location, Zakho was far removed from the influence of the Jewish religious leadership in …
Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
Av Amy Horowitz
Häftad, 2010
373 kr
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This title examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century. The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and …
Aesthetics of Sorrow
The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women
Av Tova Gamliel
Inbunden, 2014
660 kr
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The term “wailing culture” includes an array of women’s behavioUrs and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practise is wailing itself - a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving …
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah
Av Yuval Harari
Inbunden, 2017
1143 kr
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“Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts?” Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness, …
