CHAPTER TWO - Birth Ceremonies and Life Beginnings

D: BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hayim Nahman Bialik, Yehoshua Hana Ravnitsky, (Ed.). The Book of Legends: Sefer HaAggadah. (Translated by William G. Braude).

E.M. Broner. A Weave of Women. [The section in question, “The Birth” is reprinted in J. Mazow (Ed.) The Woman who lost her Names; Selected Writings by American Jewish Women].

Hayim Halevy Donin. To be a Jew.

Yaffa Eliach. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust.

Encyclopedia Judaica. Assorted articles.

Laura Janner-Klausner. (Ed.). Neshama Hadasha (A New Life): An Anthology of New Birth Celebrations from Kehilat Kol Haneshama. [Excellent bilingual anthology of innovative ceremonies available from Kehilat Kol Haneshama, Asher St., Baka, Jerusalem, Israel.]

Aharon Megged. The Name (story) in J. Blocker (Ed.) Israeli Stories.

David Novack. “Be fruitful and Multiply”: Issues relating to Birth in Judaism. [in Rela Geffen (Ed.). Celebration and Renewal; Rites of Passages in Judaism].

Debra Orenstein. (Ed.). Lifecycles; Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones. [Section Welcoming Children into Name and Covenant].

Nessa Rapoport. The Woman who Lost her Names (Story) in J. Mazow (Ed.). The Woman who lost her Names; Selected Writings by American Jewish Women, or reprinted in T. Solotaroff, N. Rapoport (Eds.). The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction.

Sharon Strassfeld, Kathy Green (Ed.). The Jewish Family Book. [Section on Celebrating].

Sharon Strassfeld, Michael Strassfeld (Ed.). The Second Jewish Catalogue. [Section on the Life Cycle; In the Beginning].

Yaakov Vainstein. The Cycle of Jewish Life.

Zelda. Every Person has a Name (poem) in many anthologies, including
T. Carmi (Ed.). The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse.

Online references

Zeved Bat-Simchat Bat

Initial concepts, with links http://www.tricityjcc.org/resources/lifecycle/birth_2.html

Foundation article http://judaism.about.com/library/lifecycles/blsimchatbat.htm

A little detail
http://www.bnaimoshe.org/simchatbat.htm

Short, traditional, a little content http://www.ohavizedek.com/traditions/simchat_bat.shtml

Idea for Simchat Bat Certificates: http://www.arepublish.com/ASIM.html

Bibliography
http://aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu/www/lifecycl.html#Birth

Naming

4-part article http://judaism.about.com/library/weekly/aa013000a.htm

Short, relates to naming
http://www.cantork.com/simchat.htm

Names database http://www.20000-names.com/female_hebrew_names.htm