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Marriage Rituals Italian Style: a Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies) Roni Weinstein
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Marriage Rituals Italian Style: a Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies)
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 books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. The book traces the chronological course of different phases of marriage (matchmaking, betrothal, the wedding day), and also adopts a thematic perspective. Marriage rituals mirror key issues in local Jewish culture: family life, gender, the youth sub-culture, sexuality, the uses of property, and the honor ethos. Jewish marriage rituals in Italy are revealed as surprisingly similar to those of their Catholic neighbors, and undergo similar change process.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 31, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9789004133044 |
| Publishers | Brill Academic Pub |
| Pages | 515 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 38 × 242 mm · 1.08 kg |
| Language | English |
