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Today I am a woman : stories of Bat Mitzvah around the world / edited by Barbara Vinick & Shulamit Reinharz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bat mitzvah.
- Bat mitzvah--History.
- Judaism--History.
- Judaism.
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recollections of the first bat mitzvah at the only synagogue in Indonesia, a poignant bat mitzvah memory of World War II Italy, and an American bat mitzvah shared with girls in a Ukrainian orphanage-these are a few of the resonant testimonies about the transition from Jewish girl to Jewish woman collected in Today I Am a Woman. Introduced by brief biographical notes and descriptions of Jewish communities around the world, these stories reveal how Judaism defines this important rite of passage in a girl's life in widely disparate settings. The contributions are from bat mitzvah girls of the
- Contents:
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
- Caribbean
- Europe
- Former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, and Eastern Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East and North Africa
- North America.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613528117
- 9781280124259
- 1280124253
- 9780253005175
- 0253005175
- OCLC:
- 775866725
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