In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Nitza Druyan
pp. 5-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0002
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The Bride's Henna Ritual: Symbols, Meanings and Changes

Rachel Sharaby
pp. 11-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0014
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Marriage and Divorce Customs in Yemen and Eretz Israel

Aharon Gimani
pp. 43-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0004
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Ma Khabar and Qussat Ḥannah : A Gendered Reading of Two Stories in the Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women

Vered Madar
pp. 84-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0009
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Metamorphosis through Philanthropy: Yemenite Women in New York

Nitza Druyan
pp. 105-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0003
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Women Resisting Men: Inheritance and Disinheritance in the Yemenite Jewish Community in Mandatory Palestine

Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
pp. 126-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0008
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Who's the Fairest of Them All? Women, Womanhood, and Ethnicity in Zionist Eretz Israel

Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern
pp. 142-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0015
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Orientalism, the Body, and Cultural Politics in Israel: Sara Levi Tanai and the Inbal Dance Theater

Dina Roginsky
pp. 164-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0012
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Between Lulu and Penina: The Yemenite Woman, Her Jewelry, and Her Embroidery in the New Hebrew Culture

Yael Guilat
pp. 198-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0006
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Resident Artist:

A Profile of Artist Michal (Miki) Kehati, Yemenite / Israeli Citizen of the World

Judith Margolis
pp. 224-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0010
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Why, Why, O My Beloved: A Wife's Rebuke to Her Husband Who Took a Rival Wife

Shulammit bat Shalom Ḥudhayfi, Uri Melammed, T. Anthony Perry
pp. 236-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0007
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Five Poems: No More Important Men, and: Dish, and: I Came to You, and: When I Grow Up, and: Primitrivial

Bracha Serri, Yaffah Berkovits Murciano, Niki Serri
pp. 238-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0013
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Unraveling the Yarn: Intertexuality, Gender, and Cultural Critique in the Stories of Dvora Baron

Shachar Pinsker
pp. 244-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0011
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Review

Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons from the Wisdom and Stories of Biblical Women (review)

Naomi Graetz
pp. 280-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0005
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Contributors

Contributors to This Issue

pp. 287-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nsh.2006.0001
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