A Moving Feast

A Moving FeastWinner of the Goldberg Family Foundation Award 2021 What is the meaning of the Jewish rites of initiation known as bar and bat mitzvah in the modern age, when the concept of mitzvah (religious precept or obligation) means so little to most Jewish adolescents? Hizky Shoham offers a comprehensive anthropological history of the bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies that seeks to understand why not only have these ceremonies been preserved, but are in fact

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