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Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate - Studies in Jewish Civilization
Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate - Studies in Jewish Civilization
Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. This volume offers fresh insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism.
236 pages, Illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 30, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9781557535771 |
Publishers | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 197 |
Dimensions | 235 × 156 × 13 mm · 366 g |
Editor | Greenspoon, Alan |