Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women - Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick

Focusing on interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this title illuminates a complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the well-being of the community and functioned as a counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.

Summary

Focusing on interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this title illuminates a complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the well-being of the community and functioned as a counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.

Product details

• Authors: Isaac Jack Levy, Rosemary Zumwalt, Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2001
• EAN: 9780252026973
• ISBN: 978-0-252-02697-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 159 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Illustrations: 12 black & white photographs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore