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Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz
09/20/2012 7:00 pm
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Join Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz as they read from their celebrated book Today I Am A Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World. Filled with lyrical accounts of being a bat mitzvah in such exotic places as Cochabamba, Bolivia and Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Co-editor Barbara Vinick reports in her introduction, bat mitzvah and female coming of age ceremonies, unlike bar mitzvahs, are less enshrined in traditional rituals and come in a “dizzying array of forms,” which may make them more “personal and meaningful.”
About the Book
Reading this book will take you on a fascinating Jewish journey into Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Europe including Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. It is heartening to read about how many Jews across the globe have a commitment to retaining Jewish practices while at the same time ensuring that women are included.
Reading this book will take you on a fascinating Jewish journey into Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Europe including Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. It is heartening to read about how many Jews across the globe have a commitment to retaining Jewish practices while at the same time ensuring that women are included.
About the Authors
Barbara Vinick is affiliated with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, where she has studied gendered rituals in Jewish communities worldwide.
Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam, grew up in New Jersey, received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She was on the psychology faculty of the University of Michigan for ten years, and then returned to Brandeis as a professor of sociology.
Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam, grew up in New Jersey, received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She was on the psychology faculty of the University of Michigan for ten years, and then returned to Brandeis as a professor of sociology.
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