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The Jewish Alchemists; A History and Source Book

1994réf. 81086Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1994. Second printing stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiv 2 617 5 pages Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling and crease in front flap. Raphael Patai November 22 1910 July 20 1996 born Ervin György Patai was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer historian Orientalist and anthropologist. During the late 1930s and early 1940s Patai taught at the Hebrew University and served as the secretary of the Haifa Technion. He founded the Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology in 1944 serving as its director of research for four years. In 1947 Patai went to New York with a fellowship from the Viking Fund for Anthropological Research; he also studied the Jews of Mexico. Patai settled in the United States becoming a naturalized citizen in 1952. He held visiting professorships at a number of the country's most prestigious colleges including Columbia the University of Pennsylvania New York University Princeton and Ohio State. He held full professorships of anthropology at Dropsie College from 1948 to 1957 and at Fairleigh Dickinson University. In 1952 he was asked by the United Nations to direct a research project on Syria Lebanon and Jordan for the Human Relations Area Files. Patai's work was wide-ranging but focused primarily on the cultural development of the ancient Hebrews and Israelites on Jewish history and culture and on the anthropology of the Middle East generally. He was the author of hundreds of scholarly articles and several dozen books including three autobiographical volumes. In 1985 the subject was a contributor to an exhibit at the Museum of New Mexico. In this monumental work Raphael Patai acclaimed author of Hebrew Myths with Robert Graves and The Hebrew Goddess opens up an entirely new field in cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Among the myriad subjects treated in the book is the close relationship between alchemy and medicine as practiced by Jewish adepts. Other Jewish alchemists combined alchemy with magic or with kabbalistic practices. Still others became through their alchemical efforts the forerunners of modern chemistry. The culmination of many years of research The Jewish Alchemists shows that alchemy was much more than the attempt at transmuting base metals into gold: it was a powerful worldview that assumed an essential unity underlying all of nature - and the power of humans to intervene with God's help in nature's course. Princeton University Press hardcover

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