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1 online resource (292 pages) |
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HBI Series on Jewish Women |
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HBI series on Jewish women.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Menstrual Blood into Jewish Blood by Rahel Wasserfall; I | The Historical Context; An Abbreviated History of the Development of the Jewish Menstrual Laws by Tirzah Meacham (leBeit Yoreh); Body Language: Women's Rituals of Purification in the Bible and Mishnah by Leslie A. Cook; Yalta's Ruse: Resistance against Rabbinic Menstrual Authority in Talmudic Literature by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert; Purity, Piety, and Polemic: Medieval Rabbinic Denunciations of "Incorrect" Purification Practices by Shaye J.D. Cohen |
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Mystical Rationales for the Laws of Niddah by Sharon KorenRabbis, Physicians, and the Woman's/Female Body: The Appropriate Distance by Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann; II | The Ethnographic and Anthropological Tradition; Talking about Miqveh Parties, or Discourses of Gender, Hierarchy, and Social Control by Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper; "There's Blood in the House": Negotiating Female Rituals of Purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel by Lisa Anteby; Community, Fertility, and Sexuality: Identity Formation among Moroccan Jewish Immigrants by Rahel Wasserfall |
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The Rites of Water for the Jewish Women of Algeria: Representations and Meanings by Joëlle Allouche-BenayounThe Return to the Sacred: Ritual Purification Among Crypto-Jews in the Diaspora by Janet Liebman Jacobs; Reflections on Contemporary Miqveh Practice by Naomi Marmon; Appendix by Tirzah Meacham (leBeit Yoreh); A. The Elimination of Niddah in Favor of Ziva; B. Retroactive and Internal Impurity and the Varieties of Blood; Glossary; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Provocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mikveh -- History
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Purity, Ritual -- Judaism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Mikveh.
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Purity, Ritual -- Judaism.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611688702 |
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1611688701 |
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