The house of secrets
Subtitle: the hidden world of the mikveh
By: Varda Polak-Sahm ; translated from the Hebrew by Anne Hartstein Pace.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780807077429
Subjects: Mikveh; Jewish women -- Religious life; Purity, Ritual -- Judaism
Work titles: Bet ha-setarim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The place; title: The balaniyot; title: A dose of impurity; title: Blood and banishment; title: Purity and sexuality; title: Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority; title: Between a woman and God; title: Between man and wife.