
100 Jewish Brides
Stories from Around the World
- 292 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
100 Jewish Brides
Stories from Around the World
About this book
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other intimates, cover similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora, from courtship and betrothal to pre-wedding customs, the wedding ceremony, and beyond.
With stories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this collection of intimate personal testimonies will surprise and inspire. A Jewish wedding after conversion in Madagascar, a reunion of Holocaust survivors in Sweden, a shipboard romance initiated by a celebrity, these stories from 83 countries describe Jewish wedding traditions, some familiar and others eye-opening, in a multitude of cultures and settings, past and present.
100 Jewish Brides offers intimate glimpses into the worlds of brides and their families based on their own written accounts. It represents opportunities to learn how Jewish lives were and are currently lived around the world from memories of the distant past to recent times.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Meeting
- 2. Courtship
- 3. Betrothal
- 4. Conversion before Marriage
- 5. The Invitation
- 6. Before the Wedding: Mikveh and Henna
- 7. The Wedding Venue
- 8. The Ketubah
- 9. The Wedding Ceremony
- 10. After the Ceremony and Beyond
- 11. Arranged and Forced Marriages
- 12. Intermarriage and Interethnic Jewish Marriage
- 13. Wartime and Postwar Weddings
- 14. Marriage Issues in Israel
- Notes
- Index of Brides by Country
- About the Author