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by Maurie Sacks (Author) "Rabbinic Judaism, which recorded its literary traditions in the first six centuries of the Common Era, is the basis of all contemporary forms of Jewish..." (more)
Key Phrases: outsider performers, insider performers, gynocentric perspective, New York, American Jewish, Miriam's Well (more...)

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Paperback: 235 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (June 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252064534
ISBN-13: 978-0252064531
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
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Rabbinic Judaism, which recorded its literary traditions in the first six centuries of the Common Era, is the basis of all contemporary forms of Jewish religious practice. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
outsider performers, insider performers, gynocentric perspective, family purity laws, tradition bearers, sisterhood women, ladies benevolent societies, rabbinic times, sexual separation, holy tombs, orthodox women, cycle songs, bad wife, biblical women

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Jewish, Miriam's Well, Reform Judaism, Rosh Hodesh, Kos Miriam, United States, Schocken Books, National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, Oxford University Press, European Zionist, Report of the National Committee, Carrie Simon, Orthodox Jewish, World War, Agudat Israel, David Philipson, Eastern Europe, Jewish Orthodoxy, North African, Shevach High School, The Story of Karen, Cup of Miriam, Free Press, Indiana University Press

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This book cites 90 books:

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective by Judith R. Baskin on 4 pages
On Being a Jewish Feminist by Susannah Heschel on 4 pages
Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem (American Folklore Society, New Series) by Susan Starr Sered in Front Matter, page 17, and Back Matter
New Moon (The Moon Series, Book 6) by Rebecca York on page 122, and page 123
All but My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein on page 103, and page 105

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Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Brenda Ayres on page 23, and Back Matter
German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Kluger, and the Politics of Address (Studies in European Culture and History) by Pascale R. Bos in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) by Elisheva Baumgarten in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by Pamela S. Nadell on page 127, and page 171
Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Tullia Magrini on page 219, and page 221

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