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The Jews of Kurdistan (Hardcover)
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The Jews of Kurdistan (Hardcover)
Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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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historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish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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