Defining the Yiddish Nation

Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Jewish nationa... Lees meer

A Narrative Community

Chaim Noy

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• An intertextual examination of the storytelling of Israeli backpackers that analyzes their unique patterns of communication to create a thorough pictu... Lees meer

Sister in Sorrow

Ilana Rosen

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories. Sister in... Lees meer

Israeli Folk Narratives

Haya Bar-Itzhak

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Provides a broad, engaging view of Israeli society through folk stories that have circulated among settlers in the kibbutz, immigrants, and ethnic gro... Lees meer

The Angel and the Cholent

Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives. The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Arch... Lees meer

The Stains of Culture

Ruth Tsoffar

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between li... Lees meer

Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A state-of-the-art contribution to the scholarly discussion of historical, and especially ancient, Jewish folklore. At the beginning of the twentieth ... Lees meer

From Sofia to Jaffa

Guy H Haskell

• Paperback | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• From Sophia to Jaffa chronicles the fascinating saga of a population relocated. Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, ... Lees meer

Maqam and Liturgy

Mark L Kligman

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music. Syrian Jews ... Lees meer

King Solomon and the Golden Fish

• Hardcover | Engels | Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• A collection of fifty-four Judeo-Spanish folktales taken from the rich heritage of Sephardic oral storytelling and translated into English for the fir... Lees meer