عنوان

Women and water :

(Number (ISBN

0874519594

(Number (ISBN

0874519608

(Number (ISBN

9780874519594

(Number (ISBN

9780874519600

Title Proper

Women and water :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

menstruation in Jewish life and law /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Hanover :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University Press of New England,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1999.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vi, 280 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Brandeis series on Jewish women

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws / Tirẓah Meacham (le Beit Yoreh) -- Body language: women's rituals of purification in the Bible and Mishnah / Leslie A. Cook -- Yalta's ruse: resistance against Rabbinic menstrual authority in Talmudic literature / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Purity, piety, and polemic: Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect": purification practices / Shaye J.D. Chohen -- Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Sharon Koren -- Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance / Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann -- Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control / 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 / Lisa Anteby -- Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants / Rahel Wasswerfall -- The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings / Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun -- The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora / Janet Liebman Jacobs -- Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Naomi Marmon.

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Mikveh-- History.

Purity, Ritual-- Judaism.

Jews.

Judaism.

Menstruation.

Women.

Mikve-- Histoire.

Pureté rituelle-- Judaïsme.

11.21 Jewish religious literature.

Halacha

Halacha.

Halacha.

Jodendom.

Judentum

Judentum.

Menstruatie.

Menstruation

Menstruation.

Mikveh.

Purity, Ritual-- Judaism.

Vrouwen.

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Wasserfall, Rahel R.,1952-

Date of Transaction

20200822143019.0

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