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Raphael Patai

Anthropology

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#433

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#175

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Linguistic Anthropology

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#7

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#2

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Cultural Anthropology

#57

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#75

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#34

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According to Wikipedia, Raphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist. Family background Patai was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1910 to Edith Patai, née Ehrenfeld, and . Patai's mother was born in Nagyvárad to German-speaking, Jewish parents who expressed their commitment to Magyar nationalism by sending their daughter to Hungarian-language schools. Both parents spoke Hungarian and German fluently and educated their children to be perfectly fluent in both languages. His father was a prominent literary figure, author of numerous Zionist and other writings, including a biography of Theodor Herzl. József was founder and editor of the Jewish political and cultural journal Mult és jövő, from 1911 to 1944, a journal that was revived in 1988 by János Köbányai in Budapest. József Patai also wrote an early History of Hungarian Jews and founded a Zionist organization in Hungary that procured support for the settlement of Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine.

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Raphael Patai's Published Works

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The Arab Mind (1973) (443)
The Hebrew Goddess (1967) (120)
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis (1964) (79)
The complete diaries of Theodor Herzl (1960) (59)
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins: The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (58)
Golden River to Golden Road: Society, Culture, and Change in the Middle East (1962) (55)
Sex and family in the Bible and the Middle East (1960) (53)
Kingdom of Jordan (1958) (52)
The Jewish Mind (1977) (40)
The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book (1995) (40)
The Goddess Asherah (1965) (38)
The myth of the Jewish race (1975) (36)
The Structure of Endogamous Unilineal Descent Groups (1965) (33)
The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology (1996) (32)
The Messiah Texts (1988) (24)
Los mitos hebreos (1986) (22)
Israel Between East and West. (1954) (22)
MUSHA'A TENURE AND CO‐OPERATION IN PALESTINE (1949) (20)
The Jewish Alchemists (1994) (20)
The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times (2000) (20)
The Love Factor in a Hebrew-Arabic Conjuration (1980) (18)
Nomadism: Middle Eastern and Central Asian (1951) (18)
The Field of Yiddish (1957) (18)
Women in the modern world (1967) (17)
Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel (1971) (15)
Cousin-Right in Middle Eastern Marriage (1955) (15)
Myth and modern man (1972) (14)
THE DYNAMICS OF WESTERNIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1970) (13)
1. The Land and the People (1958) (13)
From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel (1994) (12)
Studies in Biblical and Jewish folklore (1961) (11)
On Jewish Folklore (1983) (11)
Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel (1966) (11)
Indulco and Mumia (1964) (10)
The Jews Of Kurdistan (1993) (9)
Family, love, and the Bible (1960) (9)
The Seed of Abraham: Jews and Arabs in Contact and Conflict (1986) (8)
The vanished worlds of Jewry (1980) (7)
Israel between East and West: A Study in Human Relations (1970) (7)
Cosmogony and Cosmology (1990) (6)
Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times (1941) (6)
Ignaz Goldziher and His Oriental Diary: A Translation and Psychological Portrait (1986) (6)
Maria the Jewess--founding mother of alchemy. (1982) (6)
Man and Temple (1949) (6)
On culture contact and its working in modern Palestine (1947) (6)
The Children of Noah (1998) (5)
Arab folktales from Palestine and Israel (1998) (5)
Exorcism and Xenoglossia among the Safed Kabbalists (1978) (5)
Problems and Tasks of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (1946) (4)
Apprentice in Budapest: Memories of a World That Is No More (1988) (4)
The Messiah Texts: Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years (1988) (4)
Jadīd al-Islām : the Jewish "new Muslims" of Meshhed (1997) (4)
The God Yahweh‐Elohim (1973) (3)
Gates to the Old City: A Book of Jewish Legends (1981) (3)
The 'Egla 'Arufa or the Expiation of the Polluted Land (1939) (3)
Ethnohistory and Inner History: The Jewish Case (1976) (3)
Between Budapest and Jerusalem: The Patai Letters, 1933-1938 (1992) (3)
Anthropology during the war; Palestine. (1946) (3)
The Arab of the Desert: A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sa'udi Arabia (1950) (3)
Jewish Folk-Cures for Barrenness. II (1944) (3)
Religion in Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, and Western Culture (1954) (3)
The Phonology of 'Sabra'-Hebrew (1953) (3)
Journeyman in Jerusalem: Memories and Letters 1933-1947 (1992) (2)
FAMILISM AND SOCIALIZATION (1970) (2)
Raymund de Tarrega--marrano, heretic, alchemist. (1988) (2)
Nahum Goldmann: His Missions to the Gentiles (2003) (2)
Three Meshhed Tales on Mulla Siman-Tobh (1946) (2)
Literature on Israel 1948-1950 (1951) (2)
The dynamics of Westernization (1955) (1)
Magyar Neprajzi Lexikon (Hungarian Ethnographic Encyclopedia) (1984) (1)
Germany, Turkey, and Zionism, 1897-1918 (1978) (1)
The Culture Areas of the Middle East (1978) (1)
The Shekhina (1964) (1)
Song of the Arab : the religious ceremonies, shrines and folk music of the Holy Land Christian Arab (1954) (1)
Magyar Nepkolteszet [Hungarian Folk Poetry] (1991) (1)
Reply to Urrutia (1972) (1)
Ethnology and Ethnography: Life Is With People: The Jewish Little-Town of Eastern Europe. Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog (1952) (1)
An unknown Hebrew medical alchemist: a medieval treatise on the quinta essentia. (1984) (1)
Patai's "Seed of Abraham" (1990) (0)
Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town of Eastern Europe@@@A Treasury of Jewish Holidays: History, Legends, Traditions@@@The Merry Heart: Wit and Wisdom from Jewish Folklore (1952) (0)
Ethnology and Ethnography: Caravan: The Story of the Middle East. Carleton S. Coon (1952) (0)
From Sofia to Jaffa (0)
: Life in a Kibbutz . Murray Weingarten. ; Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia . Melford E. Spiro. ; Bridgehead: The Drama of Israel . Waldo Frank. (1957) (0)
Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria;: An annotated bibliography (1973) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Egypt. George L. Harris (1958) (0)
7. Agriculture and Labor (1958) (0)
II. Some Problems of the Middle Eastern Culture Continent (1969) (0)
XII. Social and Cultural Determinants of Middle Eastern Nationalism (1969) (0)
9. The Nomadic Tribes and Sedentarization (1958) (0)
The Goddess Cult in the Hebrew-Jewish Religion (1976) (0)
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz. The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xii, 289 pp. (1992) (0)
VI. Cousin Marriage (1969) (0)
2. Jordan: Past and Present (1958) (0)
SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: A SURVEY OF NEAR‐EASTERN ANTHROPOLOGY (1948) (0)
Offprint from Herzl year book, v. 7: Essays in Zionist history and thought (1971) (0)
PART FOUR: The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries (1995) (0)
Ethnology: Sociology of the Middle East: A Stocktaking and Interpretation. C. A. O. VAN NIEUWENHUIJZE (1972) (0)
X. The Middle Eastern Town (1969) (0)
APPENDIX: An Alchemical Vocabulary from Jerba (1995) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: An Annotated Research Bibliography of Studies in Arabic, English and French of the Fellah of the Egyptian Nile: 1798–1955. LYMAN H. COULT, JR (1959) (0)
PART SEVEN: The Sixteenth Century (1995) (0)
I. The Middle East as a Culture Continent (1969) (0)
bernard lewis. The Jews of Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1984. Pp. xii, 245. $17.50 (1985) (0)
WHAT IS HEBREW MYTHOLOGY (1964) (0)
14. The Arts, Literature, and Communication (1958) (0)
V. The Position of Women and Sex Mores (1969) (0)
IX. The Village and Its Culture (1969) (0)
CONCLUSION: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy (1995) (0)
10. Villages and Towns (1958) (0)
PART TWO: The Hellenistic Age (1995) (0)
Other: The Taming of the Nations: A Study of the Cultural Bases of International Policy. F. S. C. Northrop (1953) (0)
Maps and Tables (1969) (0)
To the Gnostic Background of the Rabbinic Adam Legends ("JQR", ib. pp. 371 sqq.) (1946) (0)
Iraq: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture.@@@Iraq's People and Resources. (1959) (0)
13. Language and Education (1958) (0)
XIV. Resistance to Westernization (1969) (0)
PART FIVE: The Fourteenth Century (1995) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Periodicals in English Dealing with Human Relations in the Arab States of the Middle East. Jean T. Burke (1958) (0)
XV. The Endogamous Unilineal Descent Group (1969) (0)
Nationalism in Jordan (1959) (0)
PART TEN: The Nineteenth Century (1995) (0)
XIII. The Dynamics of Westernization (1969) (0)
VIII. Noble and Vassal Tribes (1969) (0)
Patai's "Nahum Goldmann" (1988) (0)
15. Values and Outlook (1958) (0)
VII. Dual Organization (1969) (0)
Ethnology: Changing Family Patterns in the Arab East. Edwin Terry Prothro and Lutfy Najib Diab (1976) (0)
Seger's Review ofThe Hebrew Goddess: Was She“Orthodox” OR “Legitimate” in Hebrew-Jewish Religion? (1970) (0)
PART NINE: The Eighteenth Century (1995) (0)
5. The Framework of Government (1958) (0)
PART SIX: The Fifteenth Century (1995) (0)
Ethnology: Understanding the Middle East. JOE E. PIERCE (1973) (0)
12. Health, Sanitation, and Welfare (1958) (0)
PART ONE: Prelude (1995) (0)
III. The Desert and the Sown (1969) (0)
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish History.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1982. Pp. xvii, 144. $17.50 (1983) (0)
Religion: The Spiritual Background of Early Islam: Studies in Ancient Arab Concepts. M. M. BRAVMANN (1973) (0)
8. The Family (1958) (0)
Matronit: The Goddess of the Kabbala (1964) (0)
PART THREE: The Early Arab World (1995) (0)
CULTURE CONTACT AND CULTURE CHANGE: Interrelations of Cultures: Their Contribution to International Understanding (1955) (0)
4. National Attitudes (1958) (0)
PART EIGHT: The Seventeenth Century (1995) (0)
3. Political Developments (1958) (0)
The Nuba: An Anthropological Study of the Hill Tribes in Kordofan. S. F. Nadel (1948) (0)
6. Finance, Commerce, and Industry (1958) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: This Is Israel. By Theodore Huebener and Carl Hermann Voss (1957) (0)
Shlomo Avineri. The Making Of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins Of The Jewish State. New York: Basic Books. 1981. Pp. X, 244. $15.50 (1982) (0)
IV. The Family (1969) (0)
XVI. Women in a Man's World (1969) (0)

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