Between 1977 and 1992, practically all Ethiopian Jews migrated to Israel. This mass move followed...

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives focuses on two central elements: textual research to examine the ...

Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogu...

Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogu...

The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlemen...

In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Id...

Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bul...

Gush Emunim traces its roots to the 1967 Six Day War and the development of a Greater Israel ideo...

An examination of the history of Yiddish folklore from Poland between the two world wars.

First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information...

In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their 'home'-in the company of the society ...

While first-generation immigrant women often begin their lives at the bottom of their new societi...

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and e...

A rich, multidisciplinary exploration of spirit possession among Jews.

Unwitting Zionists examines the Jewish community in the northern Kurdistan town of Zakho from the...

As a result of the introduction of the printing press in the mid-nineteenth century and the proxi...

Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now p...

In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prero...

248Our Lives Are But Stories explores the crucial role of personal storytelling in the lives of a...

The term 'wailing culture' includes an array of women's behaviors and beliefs following the death...

The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known communit...

This fascinating case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lor...

Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuri...

Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish fa...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of cris...

In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an...