Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women

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Aesthetics of Sorrow raphael patai series in jewish folklore and anthropology general editor Dan Ben-Amos University of Pennsylvania advisory editors Tamar Alexander-Frizer Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Samuel G. Armistead University of California, Davis Haya Bar-Itzhak University of Haifa Simon J. Bronner Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Harvey E. Goldberg Hebrew University Yuval Harari Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Galit Hasan-Rokem Hebrew University Rella Kushelevsky Bar-Ilan University Eli Yassif Tel-Aviv University Aesthetics of Sorrow The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women Tova Gamliel Translated by Naftali Greenwood wayne state university press Detroit © 2014 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. isbn 978-0-8143-3476-8 (cloth) Library of Congress Control Number: 2013948977 isbn 978-0-8143-3975-6 (e-book) shed sorrow, no tears. published with the support of Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford To my mother ...