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" Women and water : "
edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.
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BL
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848292
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Women and water : : menstruation in Jewish life and law /\ edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.
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| Publication Statement
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Hanover :: University Press of New England,, ©1999.
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| Series Statement
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Brandeis series on Jewish women
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vi, 280 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0874519594
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: 0874519608
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: 9780874519594
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: 9780874519600
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Purity, Ritual-- Judaism.
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Jews.
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Judaism.
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Menstruation.
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Women.
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Mikve-- Histoire.
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Pureté rituelle-- Judaïsme.
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11.21 Jewish religious literature.
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Halacha
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Judentum
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Menstruation
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Mikveh.
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Purity, Ritual-- Judaism.
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Halacha.
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Judentum.
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Menstruation.
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Halacha.
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Jodendom.
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Menstruatie.
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Vrouwen.
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| Dewey Classification
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296.7/42
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| LC Classification
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BM703.W66 1999
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000098096
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11.21bcl
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| Added Entry
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Wasserfall, Rahel R.,1952-
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