Today I am a woman
Subtitle: bat mitzvah around the world
By: edited by Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780253356932; 9780253005175
Subjects: Social life and customs; Bat mitzvah; Judaism; Jews; History
Description: This book surprises the reader with its fascinating array of compelling accounts of what it meant for Jewish girls to come of age. The editors scoured the globe to find powerful, varied, and moving depictions of bat mitzvah in the contemporary Jewish world.
Table of contents: title: Africa; title: Asia; title: Australia and New Zealand; title: Caribbean; title: Europe; title: Former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, and Eastern Europe; title: Latin America; title: Middle East and North Africa; title: North America.