Raphael Patai was the author of more than thirty books on Jewish history, folklore, biblical studies, and Middle Eastern culture. Among his best-known books are
The Jewish Alchemists (Princeton),
The Jewish Mind,
The Hebrew Goddess, and
Hebrew Myths (with Robert Graves).
13 Ebooks by Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai: The Jewish Alchemists
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention …
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€119.99
Raphael Patai: The Kingdom of Jordan
The Kingdom of Jordan stands strategically amidst the countries of the Near East, bordered by Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. A small country, poor in resources, it is torn by conflicting tens …
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€54.99
Raphael Patai: The Hebrew Goddess
The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess …
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€32.21
Guy H. Haskell: From Sofia to Jaffa
From Sophia to Jaffa chronicles the fascinating saga of a population relocated.Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45, 000 of Bulgaria’s 50, 000 Jews l …
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€3.86
Raphael Patai: Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind. …
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€47.59
Raphael Patai: Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind. …
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€47.17
Robert Graves & Raphael Patai: Hebrew Myths
The I, Claudius author’s “lightning sharp interpretations and insights . . . are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis” (Kirkus Reviews …
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€24.48
Raphael Patai: Jadid Al-Islam
This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam "New Muslims."In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and f …
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€24.40
Raphael Patai: Messiah Texts
patai investigates the false messiahs who have appeared throughout Jewish history, the modern Messiah-influenced movements such as reform Judaism and Zionism, and the numerous reasons put forth by th …
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€24.40
Raphael Patai: Jews of Hungary
This mindset kept them apart and isolated from the Jewries of the Western world until overtaken by the tragedy of the Holocaust in the closing months of World War II. …
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€24.45
Raphael Patai: On Jewish Folklore
The essays collected in this volume, some of which are presented for the first time in English translation, provide a rich harvest of Jewish customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from all over th …
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€3.85
Raphael Patai: The Children of Noah
Here the late Raphael Patai (1910-1996) recreates the fascinating world of Jewish seafaring from Noah’s voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity. In a work of pioneering scholarship, Patai weave …
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€49.99
Raphael Patai: Golden River to Golden Road
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press’s distin …
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€124.99
