Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Ethnographer and folklorist of Jewish and Middle Eastern cultures
1910, Budapest, Hungary — 1996, Tucson, Arizona, United States
Hungary · Mandatory Palestine · United States
Raphael Patai is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Ethnographer and folklorist of Jewish and Middle Eastern cultures
Patai was a prolific ethnographer and folklorist who documented Jewish and Middle Eastern cultures across dozens of books, including 'The Hebrew Goddess' and 'The Arab Mind'. He earned the first doctorate awarded by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before a long career in the United States. He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family, the son of the Zionist writer József Patai.
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Ethnographer and folklorist of Jewish and Middle Eastern cultures
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology