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This study reveals how women in gender-segregated religions such as Orthodox Judaism develop their own autonomous religious sphere and activities that sacralize female roles. The author investigates the strategies that uneducated women have used to develop their own traditions.

Title Women as ritual experts : the religious lives of elderly Jewish women in Jerusalem. [electronic resource]
Edition 1st Oxford University Press paperback ed.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169) and index.
English
Series Oxford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (xi, 174 p. )
Language English
National Library system number 997007877030005171
MARC RECORDS
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Women as ritual experts : the religious lives of elderly Jewish women in Jerusalem / Susan Starr Sered.

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Women as ritual experts [electronic resource] : the religious lives of elderly Jewish women in Jerusalem / Susan Starr Sered.

Susan Starr Sered

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מי באש : סיפור אמיתי על אמונה, אומץ לב של אם צעירה וקהילה תומכת אשר הביאו יחדיו לנס החלמה מופלא / סיפורה של חיה-מלכה אברמסון כפי שסופר לאסתר צ'לקובסקי ; [תרגום - רות פלדהיים].

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