Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick

Centered around interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this volume illuminates preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the physical and spiritual well-being of the community and functioned as a counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.