Rites of passage
Subtitle: how today's Jews celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate
By: editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon
Series: Studies in Jewish civilization -- v. 21
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557535771
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "What makes a bat mitzvah blossom" : pre-bat mitzvah rituals for daughters and mothers / Penina Adelman; title: More bar than mitzvah : anxieties over bar mitzvah receptions in postwar America / Rachel Kranson; title: Becoming Orthodox women: rites of passage in the Orthodox community / Leslie Ginsparg Klein; title: Talking about the Jewish wedding ritual : issues of gender, power, and social control / Irit Koren; title: The making of a rabbi : semichah ordination from Moses to Grosses; title: Jonathan Gross; title: Perspectives on evaluating new Jewish rituals / Vanessa Ochs; title: Memory, questions and definitions : images of old and new rites of passage / Ori Soltes; title: A need for new rituals? American Judaism and the Holocaust / Oliver Leaman; title: Karaism : an alternate form of Jewish celebration / Daniel J. Lasker; title: Without a minyan : creating a Jewish life in a small midwestern town / Daniel Mandell, Barbara Smith-Mandell, and Jerrold Hirsch; title: Raising the bar, maximizing the mitzvah : Jewish rites of passage for children with autism / Steven Puzarne.