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The Legend of Safed
In 1908, Solomon Schechter-discoverer of the Cairo Geniza and one of the founders of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America-published his groundbreaking essay on the city of …
Overlooking the Border
An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem’s social history.Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs …
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes how the Zohar and other esoteric literature represent mystical attainment …
Jewish Revival Inside Out
Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional …
Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
“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 …
The Stains of Culture
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 …
Maqam and Liturgy
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 …
Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel
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 …
Profiles of a Lost World
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 …
In the Company of Others
In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their ""home""-in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology …