Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women
Isaac Jack Levy, Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
University of Illinois Press, 2001
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Focusing on interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this title illuminates a complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the well-being of the community and functioned as a counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.
- ISBN-13
- 9780252026973
- ISBN-10
- 0252026977
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Year
- 2001
- Publication date
- 2001-12-05
- Pages
- 288
- Dimensions
- 159x235x30
- Weight
- 560