Polak-Sahm, Varda.
The house of secrets the hidden world of the mikveh / [electronic resource] : Varda Polak-Sahm ; translated from the Hebrew by Anne Hartstein Pace. - Boston : Beacon Press, c2009. - xxiv, 248 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The place -- The balaniyot -- A dose of impurity -- Blood and banishment -- Purity and sexuality -- Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority -- Between a woman and God -- Between man and wife.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Mikveh.
Jewish women--Religious life.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
Electronic books.
BM703 / .P6513 2009eb
296.7/5
The house of secrets the hidden world of the mikveh / [electronic resource] : Varda Polak-Sahm ; translated from the Hebrew by Anne Hartstein Pace. - Boston : Beacon Press, c2009. - xxiv, 248 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The place -- The balaniyot -- A dose of impurity -- Blood and banishment -- Purity and sexuality -- Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority -- Between a woman and God -- Between man and wife.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Mikveh.
Jewish women--Religious life.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism.
Electronic books.
BM703 / .P6513 2009eb
296.7/5