The bar and Bat Mitzvah in the Yishuv and early Israel: from initiation rite to birthday party

This article is an anthropological history of the bar/bat mitzvah ceremony in the Yishuv and Israel of the 1940s and the 1950s, when this ceremony radically grew in terms of the space, time, and economic resources devoted to it, as well as expanded to include girls. To explain that shift, I suggest...

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Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Shoham, Hizky 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
In: AJS review
Year: 2018, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-157
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bar Mitzvah (Celebration) / Bat mitzvah (Celebration) / Yishuv / Initiation / Birthday celebration
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
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