Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law /
Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law /
edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.
- Hanover : University Press of New England, (c)1999.
- 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages)
- Brandeis series on Jewish women .
Includes bibliographies and index.
An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws / Body language: women's rituals of purification in the Bible and Mishnah / Yalta's ruse: resistance against Rabbinic menstrual authority in Talmudic literature / Purity, piety, and polemic: Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect": purification practices / Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance / Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control / "There's blood in the house": negotiating female rituals of purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants / The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings / The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora / Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Tirẓah Meacham (le Beit Yoreh) -- Leslie A. Cook -- Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Shaye J.D. Chohen -- Sharon Koren -- Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann -- Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper -- Lisa Anteby -- Rahel Wasswerfall -- Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun -- Janet Liebman Jacobs -- Naomi Marmon.
9781611688702
Mikveh--History.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
Electronic Books.
BM703 / .W664 1999
Includes bibliographies and index.
An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws / Body language: women's rituals of purification in the Bible and Mishnah / Yalta's ruse: resistance against Rabbinic menstrual authority in Talmudic literature / Purity, piety, and polemic: Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect": purification practices / Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance / Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control / "There's blood in the house": negotiating female rituals of purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants / The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings / The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora / Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Tirẓah Meacham (le Beit Yoreh) -- Leslie A. Cook -- Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Shaye J.D. Chohen -- Sharon Koren -- Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann -- Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper -- Lisa Anteby -- Rahel Wasswerfall -- Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun -- Janet Liebman Jacobs -- Naomi Marmon.
9781611688702
Mikveh--History.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
Electronic Books.
BM703 / .W664 1999