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Author Kosofsky, Scott-Martin.

Title The book of customs : a complete handbook for the Jewish year / by Scott-Martin Kosofsky ; with a foreword by Lawrence Kushner.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  296.4 KOSOFSKY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  296.4 KOSOFSKY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  296.4 KO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxxiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "Inspired by the Yiddish Minhogimbukh, Venice, 1593"--T.p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-410) and index.
Contents Introduction : a discovery -- A welcome from 1593 -- Custom and law -- Fundamenals of prayer -- The days of the week -- Sabbath -- The conclusion of Sabbath -- Rosh Hodesh -- The month of Nisan -- Passover -- Yom Hashoah -- The month of Iyar -- The month of Sivan -- The month of Tamuz -- The month of Av -- The month of Elul -- The month of Tishrei -- Rosh Hashanah -- Yom Kippur -- Sukkot -- Shemini Atzeret -- The month of Heshvan -- The month of Kislev -- Hanukkah -- The month of Tevet -- The month of Shevat -- The month(s) of Adar -- Purim -- Wedding -- Circumcision.
Bar and bat mitzvah -- Death and mourning.
Subject Judaism -- Customs and practices.
Fasts and feasts -- Judaism.
ISBN 0060524375 hardcover
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