The Jewish Mind is a non-fiction cultural psychology

Cultural psychology

Cultural psychology is a field of psychology which assumes the idea that culture and mind are inseparable, and that psychological theories grounded in one culture are likely to be limited in applicability when applied to a different culture...

 book by cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai

Raphael Patai

Raphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.-Family background:...

. first published in 1977.

Contents

The part I, "Preliminaries", lays the groundwork for the rest of the book. The part II, "Six Great Historic Encounters", reviews the formative and lasting influences on the Jewish mind of each period. In Part III, Patai analyzes the specific traits, characteristics and values shaping the Jewish mind during the prolonged and diverse Gentile exposure.