The Jews of Kurdistan
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where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture.\ The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II.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...
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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 The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II.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, corrected some passages that were inaccurately translated from Hebrew authors, completed the bibliography, and added occasional references to parallel traits found in other Oriental Jewish communities. Booknews An ethnographic study, written before Brauer's death in 1942, based on interviews with Kurdish Jews then living in Jerusalem. Originally published in Hebrew in 1947, the manuscript was completed and translated by Raphael Patai, who has edited this edition and added a glossary (with pronunciation). The only ethnographic study ever done of the Kurdish Jews--a people who immigrated en masse to Israel in the early ^50s, and have been largely assimilated. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Illustrations13Preface15Preface to the Hebrew Edition23Publications by Erich Brauer31Abbreviations331Ethnological Research372The Land503History of the Kurdish Jews564The Dwelling755Clothing826Food927Marriage1098Birth and Childhood1499The Kurdish Jewess17510Death and Burial19011Agriculture20512Trade21213Handicraft21714He Aga and His Jews22315The Jewish Community22816The Education of Boys23617The Synagogue24918The Sabbath25919Pesach27520Shavu'ot296219th Av30022The Days of Awe30623Sukkot - Tabernacles31524The "Control of Rain"32325Hanukka3362615th Shevat34127Purim34428Shabbat Beshallah and Shabbat Nahamu363Notes367Bibliography401Glossary407
\ BooknewsAn ethnographic study, written before Brauer's death in 1942, based on interviews with Kurdish Jews then living in Jerusalem. Originally published in Hebrew in 1947, the manuscript was completed and translated by Raphael Patai, who has edited this edition and added a glossary (with pronunciation). The only ethnographic study ever done of the Kurdish Jews--a people who immigrated en masse to Israel in the early ^50s, and have been largely assimilated. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
