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by Debra Reed Blank
Polyglot Devotions
Historical Jewish women’s prayers from Persia, North Africa - and the world over.
The past 20 years or so have witnessed the publication of many books devoted to women’s prayerful expression (Tikva Freymer-Kensky’s Motherprayer, Elizabeth Resnick Levine’s A Ceremonies Sampler, and Irene Fine’s Midlife and The Wise Woman come to mind). Now, A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book (Spiegel and Grau, $27.50), edited by Aliza Lavie, contributes more Israeli, Persian, and North African voices to this canon.