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Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate (Studies in Jewish Civilization)
Leonard Greenspoon
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Paperback. Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. This volume offers fresh insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism. Editor(s): Greenspoon, Alan. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there's something (a birth, bar or bat mitzvah, or wedding, for example) to celebrate. Whatever we call them and however we commemorate them, these are key moments for individuals and for the families and communities of which they are a part. This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible and as new as the twenty-first century in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic ... Read more
Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there's something (a birth, bar or bat mitzvah, or wedding, for example) to celebrate. Whatever we call them and however we commemorate them, these are key moments for individuals and for the families and communities of which they are a part. This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible and as new as the twenty-first century in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557535771
SKU
V9781557535771
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About Leonard Greenspoon
Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. On the Creighton faculty since 1995, Dr. Greenspoon is also Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Theology.
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