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

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

• | : Isaac Jack Levy, Rosemary Zumwalt
• | Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2001
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0252026977
• | ISBN-13: 9780252026973