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The Jews of Kurdistan

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Wayne State University Press, 1993 - History - 429 pages
Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture. Anthropologist Erich Brauer interviewed a large number of these Kurdish Jews and wrote The Jews of Kurdistan prior to his death in 1942. Raphael Patai completed the manuscript left by Brauer, translated it into Hebrew, and had it published in 1947. This new English-language volume, completed and edited by Patai, makes a unique ethnological monograph available to the wider scholarly community, and, at the same time, serves as a monument to a scholar whose work has to this day remained largely unknown outside the narrow circle of Hebrew-reading anthropologists. The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. It is the only ethnological study of the Kurdish Jews ever written and provides a comprehensive look at their material culture, life cycles, religious practices, occupations, and relations with the Muslims. In 1950-51, with the mass immigration of Kurdish Jews to Israel, their world as it had been before the war suddenly ceased to exist. This book reflects the life and culture of a Jewish community that has disappeared from the country it had inhabited from antiquity. In his preface, Raphael Patai offers data he considers important for supplementing Brauer's book, and comments on the book's values and limitations fifty years after Brauer wrote it. Patai has included additional information elicited from Kurdish Jews in Jerusalem, verified quotations, correctedsome passages that were inaccurately translated from Hebrew authors, completed the bibliography, and added occasional references to parallel traits found in other Oriental Jewish communities.
  

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Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS
13
PREFACE TO THE HEBREW EDITION
23
PUBLICATIONS BY ERICH BRAUER
31
ETHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH
37
HISTORY OF THE KURDISH JEWS
56
THE MATERIAL CULTURE
75
CLOTHING
82
FOOD
92
THE EDUCATION OF BOYS
236
THE SYNAGOGUE
249
THE SABBATH
259
PESACH
275
SHAVUOT
296
THE DAYS OF AWE
306
SUKKOTTABERNACLES
315
THE CONTROL OF RAIN
323

MARRIAGE
109
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
149
THE KURDISH JEWESS
175
DEATH AND BURIAL
190
AGRICULTURE
205
TRADE
212
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND EDUCATION
221
HANUKKA
336
PURIM
344
NOTES
367
BIBLIOGRAPHY
401
GLOSSARY
407
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The Jews of Kurdistan - Questia Online Library
Mehqar ethnologi [The Jews of Kurdistan. An ethnological study (1947)] as an ... As the terms used by the Jews of Kurdistan stem from six languages (407), ...
www.questia.com/ PM.qst?a=o& se=gglsc& d=5000268025

JSTOR: The Jews of Kurdistan
The Jews of Kurdistan. Completed and edited by Raphael Patai. Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0385-2342(1994)53%3A2%3C384%3ATJOK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0

The Jews of Kurdistan - Erich Brauer and Raphael Patai
The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. ...
wsupress.wayne.edu/ judaica/ folklore/ brauerjk.htm

Yale Israel Journal
In general, the native language of the Jews of Kurdistan was neither Arabic—like most Iraqi ..... 11 This work is The Jews of Kurdistan by Erich Brauer. ...
www.yaleisraeljournal.com/ spr2005/ goodman.php

The Seharane
Those who Perish in the Land of Assyria: The Jews of Kurdistan and Zakho. ... Encyclopedia of the Jews of Kurdistan. Yona Press/Mossad Bialik. Jerusalem. ...
www.jewishagency.org/ JewishAgency/ English/ Jewish+Education/ Compelling+Content/ Jewish+Time/ Festivals+and+Memorial+Day...

The Henna Page - Henna Traditions of Purim in Kurdistan
The Jews of Kurdistan included henna in many of their social and religious ... The Jews of Kurdistan Erich Brauer, completed and edited by Raphael Patai ...
www.hennapage.com/ henna/ encyclopedia/ kurdjewish/ purimbath.html

Yona Sabar
16) "Midrashic Literature in the Neo-Aramaic Dialects of the Jews of Kurdistan," Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, 16 (1976) ...
www.nelc.ucla.edu/ Faculty/ Sabar.htm

The Eggs and the Exodus
The Jews of Kurdistan, Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series, ed. Raphael Patai. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. ...
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/ ~elsegal/ Shokel/ 000420_PassoverEgg.html

The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of ...
The Jews of Kurdistan lived—until their immigration to Israel in the early ... According to an old tradition, the Jews of Kurdistan are descendents of the ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ articlerender.fcgi?artid=1274378

THE ISRAELI-KURDISH RELATIONS
Brauer E. The Jews of Kurdistan. Completed and Edited by R. Patai. Wayne State. University Press, Detroit, 1993, p.50. 12. For details see: Sabar Y. The ...
noravank.am/ file/ article/ 256_en.pdf

About the author (1993)

Born in Berlin in 1895, Erich Brauer studied ethnology at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. He lived for many years in Jerusalem where he devoted himself entirely to his scientific work.

Raphael Patai (1911-1996) was a prominent cultural anthropologist, historian, and biblical scholar of international reputation. He was the author of more than three dozen books on Jewish and Arab culture, history, politics, psychology, and folklore.

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TitleThe Jews of Kurdistan
Jewish folklore and anthropology series
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series
AuthorErich Brauer
EditorRaphael Patai
Editionillustrated
PublisherWayne State University Press, 1993
ISBN0814323928, 9780814323922
Length429 pages
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History / Jewish
History / Middle East / General
Religion / Judaism / General
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
  
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