ABSTRACT

Edot: A Quarterly for Folklore and Ethnology was a periodical begun by Raphael Patai and Joseph J. Rivlin and published by the Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology, which Patai had founded in Jerusalem in 1944. Patai was also the vital force behind the periodical, whose title translates as “Ethnic Groups.” In all, three volumes of the journal, each totaling more than 300 pages, appeared between 1945 and 1948.