100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Meeting
	Peta Pellach, Australia
	Suzanne Vromen, Belgium
	Anne Lapedus Brest, Ireland
	Luba Ioffe, Russia
	Lina Zatzman, Scotland
	Sara Gerson, Syria
	Modreck Maeresera, Zimbabwe
2. Courtship
	Raisa Baskin, Belarus
	Racheline Abécassis Barda, Egypt
	Racheline Abécassis Barda, Italy
	Miriam Sivan, Poland
	Daisy Abboudi, Sudan
	Mushka Kantor Kaltmann, Thailand
3. Betrothal
	Luiza Kario, Bulgaria
	Sally Joseph, Burma
	Ronit Behar and Ruthy Benoliel, Chile
	Batia Shems, Lebanon
	Remy Ilona, Nigeria
	Pnina Abir-Am, Romania
	Eda Birol, Turkey
	Rachel Namudosi Keki, Uganda
4. Conversion before Marriage
	Aline Livni, Algeria
	Cecilia Kahn, El Salvador
	Libby Nitzan, Israel
	Yehudah Kimani, Kenya
	Diana Pershtein-Lapkis, Latvia
	Ahava Havotramahavalisoa, Madagascar
	Veronica Preiss, Nicaragua
	Cynthia Castro Cohen-Henriquez, Panama
	Navah Harlow, Portugal
	Jacob Steinberg, Suriname
	Gabriela Fraenkel, Uruguay
5. The Invitation
	Ethel Schuster, Colombia
	Carole Bourne, Costa Rica
	Miriam Harel, Germany
6. Before the Wedding: Mikveh and Henna
	Zanet Battinou, Greece
	Sheba Grinhaus, Israel
	Gabriela Mekler, Mexico
	Rachel Jacobson, Morocco
	Zvia Epstein, Pakistan
	Alanna E. Cooper, Uzbekistan
	Tzipi Avizemer and Dafna Avizemer Rabbo, Yemen
7. The Wedding Venue
	Irene Münster, Argentina
	Regina Espenshade, Austria
	Rabbi A. Nathan Abramowitz, Bermuda
	Dalia Kaufman Katz, Cuba
	Andrea Masters, England
	Anaëlle Ebrard, France
	Katalin Guttmann-Olti, Hungary
	Rabbi Michael Harvey, St. Thomas
	Larisa Khayter Katsman, Ukraine
	Marian Leah Knapp, United States
8. The Ketubah
	Patricia Philo Kopstein, New Zealand
	Lena Rubenfeld Koralewska, Poland
	Geri Garfinkel, United States
9. The Wedding Ceremony
	Nan Weiner, Canada
	Vida Neuwirthová, Czech Republic
	Evelyn Zentner de Falck, Ecuador
	Adena Winer-Avraham and David Winer, Ethiopia
	Elizabeth Joshua, India
	Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Italy
	Molly Neufeld, Peru
	Esther Muhlfelder, Spain
	Ariella Tishler, Switzerland
10. After the Ceremony and Beyond
	Daphna Shemesh, Afghanistan
	Mônica Guttmann, Brazil
	Lina Zatzman, Canada
	Nancy A., China
	Shanaz, Iran
	Ainsley Henriques, Jamaica
	Ana Lebl, Serbia
	Judith Goldstein, Venezuela
11. Arranged and Forced Marriages
	Noreen Daniel and Romiel Daniel, India
	Rachel Wahba, India
	Farideh Goldin, Iran
	Yitzhak Bakal, Iraq
	Gina Bublil Waldman, Libya
	Herb Selesnick, Lithuania
	Yolande Cohen, Morocco
	Aimée Aviva Cohen, Tunisia
12. Intermarriage and Interethnic Jewish Marriage
	Ana Lebl, Croatia
	Josette Capriles Goldish, Curaçao
	Guershon Nduwa, France
	Deedie Karake, Guatemala
	Rosario Losk, Honduras
	Tracy Slater, Japan
	Maxine Hart, South Africa
	Annie and Sara Goldsand, United States
13. Wartime and Postwar Weddings
	Rabbi Bent Lexner, Denmark
	Rosalind Dobson, England
	Karmela Bélinki, Finland
	Merav Levkowitz, Israel
	Irene Levin, Norway
	Hédi Fried, Sweden
	Livia Fränkel, Sweden
	Shulamit Reinharz, The Netherlands
14. Marriage Issues in Israel
	Ruth Carmi, Cyprus
	Yael Yechieli, Israel
Notes
Index of Brides by Country
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