Women as ritual experts the religious lives of elderly jewish women in jerusalem american folklore society new series sered susan starr isbn 9780195111460 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Women as ritual experts the religious lives of elderly jewish women in jerusalem july 6 2017 april 5 2020 susan sered this ethnography explores the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly jewish women originally from kurdistan and yemen who now live in jerusalem sered visited the women in their homes and accompanied them on trips to holy tombs local ethnic synagogues and . At the time when sered examined jewish elderly women as ritual experts in a day center in jerusalem there were few studies about women in judaism from the prospective of the folk domestic sphere that has changed a great deal now there is a great deal of literature dealing with womens roles in patriarchal monotheistic religions. Susan sereds ethnography of kurdish elderly jewish women at a jerusalem senior citizens day center is a fascinating read in a breezy 142 pages she relates the stories and rituals of these devout jews to show how they have developed their own female oriented little tradition within broader patriarchal judaism the main strength and invitation of the book is summed up in her concluding . Women as ritual experts the religious lives of elderly jewish women in jerusalem by susan starr sered 1996 11 21 nov 04 2020 posted by david baldacci publishing text id 31120879b online pdf ebook epub library eligible orders women as ritual experts the religious lives of elderly jewish women in jerusalem by susan starr sered 1996 11 21 jul 10 2020 posted by andrew neiderman