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Rites of passage : how today's Jews celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate

Title
Rites of passage : how today's Jews celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.
Publication
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
  • Creighton University. Kripke Center for the Study of Religion & Society.
  • Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.
  • University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.
  • Klutznick-Harris Symposium (21st : 2008 : Omaha, Neb.)
Description
197 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; v. 21
Uniform Title
Studies in Jewish civilization ; 21.
Subject
  • Judaism > Customs and practices > Congresses
  • Life cycle, Human > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses
  • Life change events > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses
  • Jewish way of life > Congresses
Note
  • "Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization--Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 26-27. 2008"--P. [i].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
"What makes a bat mitzvah blossom" : pre-bat mitzvah rituals for daughters and mothers / Penina Adelman -- More bar than mitzvah : anxieties over bar mitzvah receptions in postwar America / Rachel Kranson -- Becoming Orthodox women: rites of passage in the Orthodox community / Leslie Ginsparg Klein -- Talking about the Jewish wedding ritual : issues of gender, power, and social control / Irit Koren -- The making of a rabbi : semichah ordination from Moses to Grosses -- Jonathan Gross -- Perspectives on evaluating new Jewish rituals / Vanessa Ochs -- Memory, questions and definitions : images of old and new rites of passage / Ori Z. Soltes -- A need for new rituals? American Judaism and the Holocaust / Oliver Leaman -- Karaism : an alternate form of Jewish celebration / Daniel J. Lasker -- Without a minyan : creating a Jewish life in a small midwestern town / Daniel Mandell, Barbara Smith-Mandell, and Jerrold Hirsch -- Raising the bar, maximizing the mitzvah : Jewish rites of passage for children with autism / Steven Puzarne.
Call Number
*PKA 11-136
ISBN
  • 9781557535771
  • 1557535779
LCCN
2010021856
OCLC
555660802
Title
Rites of passage : how today's Jews celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.
Imprint
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2010.
Series
Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; v. 21
Studies in Jewish civilization ; 21.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
Creighton University. Kripke Center for the Study of Religion & Society.
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.
University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.
Klutznick-Harris Symposium (21st : 2008 : Omaha, Neb.)
Research Call Number
*PKA 11-136
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