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

ISBN-13: 9780252026973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str.

Isaac Jack Levy; Rosemary Zumwalt

Opis

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