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Hardcover Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women Book
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ISBN: 0814334768

ISBN13: 9780814334768

Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women

(Part of the Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series)

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Investigates the socio-cultural, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the Yemenite Jewish wailing tradition in modern Israel.

The term "wailing culture" includes an array of women's behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practice is wailing itself--a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving lyrical...

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