Inventing Jewish ritual [electronic resource] / Vanessa L. Ochs ; foreword by Riv-Ellen Prell.
Publication details: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 276 pISBN:- 9780827608344 (alk. paper)
- 0827608349 (alk. paper)
- 296.4 22
- BM700 .O29 2007eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : becoming a ritual innovator -- Democracy, open access, and Jewish feminism -- The narrative approach -- Material culture : new rituals and ritual objects -- Stretched by innovation -- Change : resisting and acclimating -- Case study 1 : Miriam's tambourine -- Case study 2 : the Holocaust Torah -- Case study 3 : the wedding booklet -- Epilogue : inheriting invented traditions.
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