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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| 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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| Pubblicazione: | Boston, : Beacon Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 296.7/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mikveh |
| Jewish women - Religious life | |
| Purity, Ritual - Judaism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 unprecedented access to this hidden world. The House of Secrets offers a richly nuanced, uncensored look at an experience that is for some holy and for others coercive, ultimately illuminating the remarkable power of ritual immersion. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The house of secrets |
| ISBN: | 0-8070-7743-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968573303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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