Rites of passage : how today's Jews celebrate, commemorate, and commiserate / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2010. |
| Description | 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay) |
| Other author/creator | Creighton University. Kripke Center for the Study of Religion & Society. |
| Other author/creator | Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. |
| Other author/creator | University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies. |
| Other author/creator | Klutznick-Harris Symposium 2008 : Omaha, Neb.) (21st : |
| Series | Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; v. 21 Studies in Jewish civilization ; 21. ^A812609 |
| 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. |
| General 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. |
| LCCN | 2010021856 |
| ISBN | 9781557535771 |
| ISBN | 1557535779 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BM700 .R45 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |