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UNINA9910773277903321 |
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Titolo |
Arrangierte Liebe : Leitfaden zur Sonderausstellung in der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Universität Göttingen |
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Universitätsverlag Göttingen |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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UNINA9910968573303321 |
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Autore |
Polak-Sahm Varda |
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Titolo |
The house of secrets : the hidden world of the mikveh / / Varda Polak-Sahm ; translated from the Hebrew by Anne Hartstein Pace |
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Boston, : Beacon Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mikveh |
Jewish women - Religious life |
Purity, Ritual - Judaism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The place -- The balaniyot -- A dose of impurity -- Blood and banishment -- Purity and sexuality -- Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority -- Between a woman and God -- Between man and wife. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath-the mikveh-is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women's practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent the mikveh, often for surprising personal reasons. Roused by her own immersion experience, for years Varda Polak-Sahm, a secular Jew, patiently observed and interviewed women at the mikveh, gaining |
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