The Jews of Kurdistan (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)

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 copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.