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