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.
Join TBZ member Shula Reinharz and co-editor Barbara Vinick to explore the joy of this book!
“In these personal memories of a universal phenomenon women’s individual voices resound with one hundred varieties.”—Hasia Diner, Professor Emerita, New York University (and TBZ member!)
“100 Jewish Brides captures an astounding array of matrimonial customs, rituals, and rites through powerful first-person accounts of Jewish marriage by women around the globe! Vinick and Reinharz have brilliantly provided needed gendered insight into these all too often neglected dimensions of the Jewish wedding. 100 Jewish Brides offers an unequaled understanding of the lives and feelings of Jewish women – a stunning anthropological and feminist achievement!”—David Ellenson, z’l – Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (and father of Rafi, our wonderful drummer)