Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

A state-of-the-art contribution to the scholarly discussion of historical, and especially ancient, Jewish folklore.

This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam—"New Muslims."

Investigates class mobility in a group of 40­­-50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel.

Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century.

Surveys past and present research on Israeli anthropology for students and researchers.

Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music.

A compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories.

A groundbreaking study of personal stories from ex-Soviet immigrants in Israel, bringing together scholarship in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, semiotics, and social psychology.

Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between literal reading and its translation into bodily practices—especially as related to the female body.