Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Series Editor: Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania
The Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology publishes books illuminating the diverse and culturally rich Jewish heritage. The series is named in honor of the many contributions of its founder and original editor, Raphael Patai.
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In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma’asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories’ meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight.
"This important book provides Jewish Studies scholars, medievalists and students of European culture with a point of entry into the sources that both shape and reflect the complex worlds of medieval northern-French Jews. The profound literary, comparative and historical analysis, supplemented by an annotated edition and translation of the medieval tales and a facsimile edition of the beautiful Bodleian Library manuscript, turn this book into a treasure trove." – Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, professor in the department of Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Eating at God's Table
How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities
The practice and meaning of kosher Orthodox foodways in sustaining a vibrant and diverse community.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349540
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814349557
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814349564
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature
Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of premodern Jewish texts.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814350829
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814347041
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814347058
AWARDWINNER
Salvage Poetics
Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies
An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814350812
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814343180
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343197
Stories of Jewish Life
Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 18761985
Segre's stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814347652
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814347669
Jewish Revival Inside Out
Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age
Unravels the cultural tension inherent in projects of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349175
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814349182
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349496
Sepher Yosippon
A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel
The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349434
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814349441
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349458
The Angel and the Cholent
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives
A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348840
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814348857
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348864
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah
A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period -- the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348819
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814336304
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336311
AWARDWINNER
Jewish Cultural Studies
Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814338759
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814348284
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338766
The Power of a Tale
Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives
English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814342084
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814342091
The Legend of Safed
Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814346846
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814341100
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341117
Overlooking the Border
Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem's social history.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344927
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814341087
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814341094
Concrete Boxes
Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery
Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340592
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344422
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340608
Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel
This study presents a unique selection of folk narratives of Moroccan Jews in Israel.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344521
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814344538
From Sofia to Jaffa
The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel
From Sophia to Jaffa chronicles the fascinating saga of a population relocated.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344064
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814344057
For Our Soul
Ethiopian Jews in Israel
For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants experienced in Israel.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344101
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814344095
Tales in Context
Sefer Ha-Ma'asim in Medieval Northern France
A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma'asim.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814342718
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814342725
In the Company of Others
The Development of Anthropology in Israel
An ethnographic account of the history and development of anthropology in Israel.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814338735
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338742
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
A state-of-the-art contribution to the scholarly discussion of historical, and especially ancient, Jewish folklore.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814340479
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340486
Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950
Traces the development of an ethnic literature in the vernacular language of Judeo-Arabic in Tunisia between 1850 and 1950.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814328712
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814340462