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{"value"=>"1900s-2011", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1900/2011"}
{"value"=>"1937-1995", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1937/1995"}
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{"value"=>"Raphael Patai papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Manuscripts and Archives</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Raphael Patai (1910-1996) was a cultural anthropologist specializing in Jewish and Arab cultures. His papers, dating from 1903 to 2011, document his career through extensive correspondence with colleagues, drafts and manuscripts of his many publications, lectures, research notes, photographs, scrapbooks, and sound and video recordings. The collection includes files created by his daughter, Daphne Patai, after his death, and correspondence and writings of his father, József Patai."}
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{"value"=>"Multiple languages"}
{"value"=>"English, German, Hebrew and Hungarian. One audio interview of Patai was conducted in Spanish."}
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{"value"=>"Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Raphael Patai was born in Budapest, Hungary on November 22, 1910, the son of Hungarian Jews, Edith (Ehrenfeld) Patai and József (or Joseph) Patai (1882-1953). Until 1935, Patai used his birth name Ervin George Patai. His father was a prominent scholar, editor and Zionist who published a biography of Theodor Herzl and who was the editor from 1910 to 1940 of a monthly journal of Jewish affairs entitled <span class=\"title\">Mult es Jovo</span> (Past and Future). Patai's father was also a founder of the Zionist Organization in Hungary and was instrumental in procuring the support for the settlement of Jews in Palestine where he also settled in 1939.</p> <p>Raphael was educated in rabbinical seminaries and at the universities of Budapest and Breslau. In 1933, after receiving a doctorate in Semitic languages and Oriental history from the University of Budapest, he settled in Palestine where he continued his studies at the Hebrew University from which he received (in 1936) a doctorate in Palestinology. Afterwards, he returned briefly to Budapest where he was ordained at the Rabbinical Seminary.</p> <p>In Palestine, Dr. Patai held several teaching posts at Hebrew University and at Haifa Technion. In 1944, he founded the Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology, serving until 1948 as its director of research and editor of its quarterly journal <span class=\"title\">Edoth</span>, which he also founded.</p> <p>In 1947, with the aid of a fellowship from the Viking Fund for Anthropological Research, Patai studied the Jews of Mexico. Upon the completion of his research, Patai settled in the United States where he became a naturalized American citizen in 1952.</p> <p>During his academic career, Dr. Patai held numerous visiting professorships at American universities including Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, New York University and Ohio State University. He held professorships of Anthropology at Dropsie College (1948-1957) and at Fairleigh Dickinson from 1966 until his retirement. He also directed (1955-1956) a research project on Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan for the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (New Haven, Connecticut) and prepared a special report on social conditions in the Middle East for the United Nations in 1952 .</p> <p>Patai also served as Director of Research for the Herzl Institute and editor of the Herzl Press, and as an advisory editor of Encyclopedia American. He was President of the American Folklore Society and a fellow of the American Anthropological Association.</p> <p>Dr. Patai's principal contributions to scholarship were in the fields of cultural anthropology of the ancient Hebrews and Jews and of the modern Middle East. He published hundreds of scholarly articles and authored or edited some thirty-five books including <span class=\"title\">The Arab Mind</span> (1973), <span class=\"title\">Gates to the Old City</span> (1980), <span class=\"title\">The Hebrew Goddess</span> (1967), <span class=\"title\">The Jewish Mind</span> (1976), <span class=\"title\">The Messiah Texts</span> (1979), and <span class=\"title\">The Vanished Worlds of Jewry</span> (1980). With Robert Graves he co-authored <span class=\"title\">Hebrew Myths</span> (1964).</p> <p>By his first marriage to Naomi Tolkowsky, Dr. Patai had two daughters, Jennifer (Dr. Jennifer Patai-Schneider, born 1940), and Daphne (Dr. Daphne Patai, born 1942). Patai was married three more times, to Irene Patai, Ann Uhl Drevet, and Frances Sheldon.</p> <p>Raphael Patai died in 1996 in Tucson, Arizona.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Raphael Patai papers date from 1903 to 2011 (the bulk date from 1937 to 1995). The collection documents Patai's career as a scholar, editor, professor and author on the subjects of Jewish culture and history and the modern Middle East. Patai's publications and speaking engagements are extensively documented through manuscript drafts, research notes, and transcripts and recordings of lectures and interviews. Patai's personal and professional activities are further documented through photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, and diaries. The collection contains some papers of Patai's family members, including his parents Edith and József Patai and sister Eva Patai. Files of Raphael Patai's daughter, Daphne Patai, document her stewardship of her father's estate and posthumous publications of his work. The collection also contains artwork created and collected by Patai, comprising sketches, paintings, and prints.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Raphael Patai papers are arranged in ten series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1846055'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1930s-2008</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>16.67 linear feet (40 boxes)</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1846371'>Series II: Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1920-2008</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>20.01 linear feet (45 boxes, 1 volume, 1 oversize folder). 1,020 kilobytes (34 computer files)</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1846764'>Series III: Family Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>circa 1903-1995</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5.25 linear feet (12 boxes, 2 volumes)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains papers of Raphael Patai's parents Edith and József Patai and sister Eva Patai (Koigen Patai), and files of correspondence with his family members.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1846890'>Series IV: Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1900s-1990s</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3.76 linear feet (9 boxes, 1 oversize folder)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Photographs consist of prints, slides and negatives (including many glass plate negatives). Some of the photographs are held in albums which have been disassembled. Many photographs are no longer attached to the pages.</p> <p>Photographs depict Patai, his family, his appearances at events and lectures, and travels in Europe, Mexico, and Israel. The glass plate negatives are mostly images of Patai when he was a teenager and images of his parents and siblings. The files also contain images that were used for his books, including <span class=\"title\">Jews of Kurdistan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Myths of the Jewish Race</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Jewish Alchemists</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1846939'>Series V: Personal Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1932-1990s</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.46 linear feet (4 boxes, 2 volumes). 1 audio recording</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of Patai's diplomas and certificates; identification cards and passports; scrapbooks containing clippings, printed matter, and correspondence related to Patai's career; and a recording of his daughters singing as children.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1846951'>Series VI: Sound and Video Recordings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1953-1996</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>87 audio recordings. 2 moving image recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The sound recordings and video recordings consist of Patai's lectures before an audience at universities and other public settings; interviews with Patai, including extensive oral histories conducted by his daughter Daphne; and a recording of his memorial program in 1997. The lectures include many talks on <span class=\"title\">The Hebrew Goddess</span>, as well as several interviews and conversations with Robert Graves related to <span class=\"title\">Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis</span>. The earliest lecture, \"Kaleidoscope: Kibbutz in Transition,\" is a forum, but Patai is not listed as one of the participants.</p> <p>Also present are recordings of Mexican folk songs, recordings of children singing, and an unidentified recording.</p> <p>All recordings are sound recordings, except for two video recordings of interviews with Patai.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1847051'>Series VII: Diaries</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1947-1996</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Diaries contain brief entries documenting Raphael Patai's social and professional activities.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1847058'>Series VIII: Artwork</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1920s-1980s</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.27 linear feet (1 box, 2 oversize folders)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Artwork consists of prints, drawings, and paintings. Most of the artwork is unrelated to Patai's research.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1847066'>Series IX: Publishing Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1961-2011</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.25 linear feet (3 boxes)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Publishing files contain contracts and correspondence regarding Raphael Patai's books, especially posthumous publications. The series contains files concerning Daphne Patai's efforts to have her father's <span class=\"title\">Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore</span> completed and published after his death. The series also contains correspondence and clippings concerning the public and scholarly reaction after <span class=\"title\">The Arab Mind</span> was cited in a 2004 article by Seymour Hersh as one of the inspirations for the U.S. Army's abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2349#c1847075'>Series X: Death and Estate</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1995-2007</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.42 linear feet (1 box)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Death and Estate files contain condolence letters written to Raphael Patai's daughters; obituaries; documents related to his estate and the disposition of his library; fliers for the Patai memorial lecture; and an essay on mortality that Patai wrote shortly before his death.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Raphael Patai, 1987, 1991 and by his estate, 1998-1999, 2001, 2014, and 2015.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection processed by <span class=\"name\">John D. Stinson</span>, <span class=\"date\">1991</span>. Later additions integrated and finding aid revised by <span class=\"name\">Valerie Wingfield</span>, <span class=\"date\">2009</span>, and <span class=\"name\">Kit Fluker</span>, <span class=\"date\">2015</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence between Raphael Patai and his daughters, Daphne Patai and Jennifer Patai Schneider, is restricted during their lifetimes. Diaries (Series VII) and interviews that Daphne Patai conducted with her father between 1988 and 1996 (located in Series VI) are closed until 2030, except by written permission from Daphne Patai.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Revised by Matthew Snyder,", "date"=>"2020"}
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1900
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1900
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2011
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1900
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2011
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1937
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1995
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49.07 linear feet (115 boxes, 5 volumes, 4 oversized folders). 1.02 megabytes (34 computer files). 87 audio recordings. 2 moving image recordings
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{"value"=>"Raphael Patai papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}