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Publications The section sponsors a book series, Jewish Cultural Studies, published for the AFS by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, and edited by Simon J. Bronner. Members of the section receive copies of the books as a benefit of membership. The cost of membership is priced below the retail cost of individual volumes. The purpose of the series is to present thematic volumes interpreting Jewish cultures ethnographically and historically around the globe, and exploring the idea of Jewish culture as it has been constructed, symbolized, produced, communicated, and consumed in diverse contexts. Themes of volumes will be interdisciplinary, drawing particularly on research in folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, and sociology. The series has an international editorial board, including: Haya Bar-Itzhak, Haifa University, Israel Previous volumes have included:
Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity (2010) Revisioning Ritual: Jewish Traditions in Transition (2011) For more information contact: Jewish Cultural Studies Until 2000, the section previously published a journal Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review and newsletter Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter. These publications are available online in full-text through the HathiTrust Digital Library. Requests for permission to reprint work from the publications of the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section should be directed to Simon Bronner. Please provide specifics about which material would be used, a description of the proposed outlet, and the place of the reprinted material in that outlet. The Section sponsors the Raphael Patai Prize in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology through an endowed fund to honor the best unpublished essay in Jewish folklore and ethnology by a student. The prize has an annual deadline of June 15. For more information contact the section convener Simon J. Bronner at sbronner@psu.edu. The criteria for the award are:
The winners for 2011 were Magdalena Luszczynska (University College London) for "Father-Son Relationships in Medieval Ashkenaz" and Amy Milligan (Penn State Harrisburg) for "Wearing Many Hats: Head Covering Practices of Orthodox Jewish Women." The winner for 2009 was Jillian Gould (folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland) for "Shiva as a Creative Ritual in an Institutional Home” (see vol. 3 of the Jewish Cultural Studies Series). The winners for 2007 were Gabrielle Berlinger (folklore, Indiana University) for "770 Eastern Parkway: Brooklyn Brownstone, Sacred Space" (see vol. 2 of the Jewish Cultural Studies Series) and Irit Koren (gender studies, Bar-Ilan University) for "The Power of Discourse: Issues of Gender and Social Control Regarding Changing the Jewish Wedding Ritual" (see vol. 3 of theJewish Cultural Studies Series). The 2005 winner was Eve Jochnowitz of New York University for "Dining Out in Russian-Jewish New York." (see The Restaurant Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat [2007]) The 2004 winners were Elly Teman (cultural anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem) for "The Red String," a study of the visual symbolism of red strings worn by contemporary Jewish Israelis (see vol. 1 of the Jewish Cultural Studies Series), and Roni Weinstein (Jewish history, Hebrew University, Jerusalem) for "Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews," a study of the distinctive Italian Jewish formation of a rite of passage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (see Marriage Rituals Italian Style, 2004). Honorable Mentions were awarded in 2004 to Erica Lehrer (anthropology, University of Michigan) for "Repopulating Jewish Poland--In Wood," and Nina Spiegel (Jewish history and dance history, Stanford University) for "Cultural Formulation in Eretz Israel: The National Dance Competition of 1937." For information on contributing to the endowment fund for the Raphael Patai Prize, please contact AFS Executive Director Timothy Lloyd. Use the online store to join this American Folklore Society interest-group section.
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