Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.

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.

Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.

Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.

Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.

A unique selection of folk narratives of Moroccan Jews in Israel.

Examination the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created.

A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.