Marriage rituals Italian style : : a historical anthropological perspective on early modern Italian Jews / / by Roni Weinstein.

Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews is the first comprehensive attempt to present the wealth of primary documents relating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - responsa, private letters, court protocols, defamating book...

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Superior document:Brill's series in Jewish studies, v. 35
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Year of Publication:2004
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 35.
Physical Description:1 online resource (533 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Research Field, The Method, The Sources, The Research Questions; Chapter One: "An Auspicious Time For Finding Mates": Matchmaking (Stage One)-Finding A Partner; Chapter Two: "Matchmaking Is Much Like Betrothal": Matchmaking (Stage Two)-Signing And Publishing The Tenaim; Chapter Three: "The Issue Is Not The Ring, But The Publicity": Kiddushin-Public And Hidden; Chapter Four: "A Woman's Voice Is Lewdness": Gossip, Honor, and Social Control in the Marriage Ritual
  • Chapter Five: "To Give Her Gifts and Betroth Her by the Law of Moses and Israel": Gifts and the Marriage RitualChapter Six: "Shame on the Youth who Aches for Women": The Marriage Ritual as Seen by the Young; Chapter Seven: "Mirth And Clowning On This Matter": The Wedding Day-Between Pious Joy And Carnival; Summary: Marriage Rituals Italian Style; Bibliography; Index