menstruation in Jewish life and law Wasserfall, Rahel R. 1952- text bibliography History. Electronic books. nhu 1999 monographic eng 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages) An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws / Tirẓah Meacham (le Beit Yoreh) -- Body language: women's rituals of purification in the Bible and Mishnah / Leslie A. Cook -- Yalta's ruse: resistance against Rabbinic menstrual authority in Talmudic literature / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Purity, piety, and polemic: Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect": purification practices / Shaye J.D. Chohen -- Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Sharon Koren -- Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance / Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann -- Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control / Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper -- "There's blood in the house": negotiating female rituals of purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Lisa Anteby -- Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants / Rahel Wasswerfall -- The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings / Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun -- The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora / Janet Liebman Jacobs -- Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Naomi Marmon. edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mikveh History Purity, Ritual Judaism Mikve Histoire Pureté rituelle Judaïsme Mikveh Purity, Ritual Judaism Jodendom Vrouwen Menstruatie Halacha Halacha Judentum Menstruation RELIGION / Judaism / General BM703 .W66 1999eb 296.7/42 11.21 (DLC) 99034294 (OCoLC)41488743 9781611688702 1611688701 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1059356 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1059356 N$T 151218 20200709060410.0 ocn932627039 eng