100 Jewish Brides

100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World is a collection of personal testimonies from Jewish brides across 83 countries, showcasing diverse customs and rituals related to weddings. The stories cover courtship, betrothal, pre-wedding customs, the wedding ceremony, and beyond, highlighting similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora.

Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 06 February 2024
Publisher: Indiana University Press

100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World

Features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other intimates, cover similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora, from courtship and betrothal to pre-wedding customs, the wedding ceremony, and beyond.

With stories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this collection of intimate personal testimonies will surprise and inspire. A Jewish wedding after conversion in Madagascar, a reunion of Holocaust survivors in Sweden, a shipboard romance initiated by a celebrity, these stories from 83 countries describe Jewish wedding traditions, some familiar and others eye-opening, in a multitude of cultures and settings, past and present.

100 Jewish Brides offers intimate glimpses into the worlds of brides and their families based on their own written accounts. It represents opportunities to learn how Jewish lives were and are currently lived around the world from memories of the distant past to recent times.

Weight: 666g
Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780253068361