The New Jewish Wedding, Revised
Edition: Rev Upd edition
Publisher: Scribner
Published: March 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780743202558
Subjects: Judaism; Reference; Marriage customs and rites; Weddings; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; Judaism - Rituals & Practice; Reference / Weddings; Marriage customs and rites, Je; Marriage customs and rites, Jewish; Christianity - Ritual & Practice
First sentence: When most Jews lived in small, tight-knit, intradependent communities, a wedding was a wedding: you made it as lavish and invited as many people as you could afford, but the content and meaning of the ceremony were clearly defined by Jewish tradition.