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.

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 ...

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...