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

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

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

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

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...

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

A rich, multidisciplinary exploration of spirit possession among Jews.

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

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 ...

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