Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law /
Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law /
edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.
- 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages)
- Brandeis series on Jewish women .
- Brandeis series on Jewish women. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Provocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture.
9781611688702 1611688701
2021695112
Mikveh--History.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
Mikve--Histoire.
Pureté rituelle--Judaïsme.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
Mikveh
Purity, Ritual--Judaism
Halacha
Judentum
Menstruation
Jodendom.
Vrouwen.
Menstruatie.
Halacha.
History
BM703 / .W66 1999eb
296.7/42
000098096
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Provocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture.
9781611688702 1611688701
2021695112
Mikveh--History.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
Mikve--Histoire.
Pureté rituelle--Judaïsme.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
Mikveh
Purity, Ritual--Judaism
Halacha
Judentum
Menstruation
Jodendom.
Vrouwen.
Menstruatie.
Halacha.
History
BM703 / .W66 1999eb
296.7/42
000098096