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Gates of mitzvah = Shaʻare mitsṿah : a guide to the Jewish life cycle / edited by Simeon J. Maslin; illustrated by Ismar David. New York : Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1979.
Living Jewish life cycle : how to create meaningful Jewish rites of passage at every stage of life / Goldie Milgram. Woodstock, VT : Jewish Lights Pub., 2009.
Sacred moments : tales from the Jewish life cycle / selected and edited by Ronald H. Isaacs and Kerry M. Olitzky. Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, 1995.
The Jewish life cycle / by Joseph Gutmann. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1987.
The Jewish life cycle : illustrated with selected ceremonial objects from the Beth Tzedec Museum and private collections / guest curator, Fred Weinberg. Toronto : Koffler Gallery, 1984.
The Jewish life cycle : rites of passage from biblical to modern times / Ivan G. Marcus. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2004.
The tapestry of Jewish time : a spiritual guide to holidays and life-cycle events / by Nina Beth Cardin. Springfield, NJ : Behrman House, 2000.
A time to be born : Jewish birth customs and traditions / Michele Klein. Philadelphia, PA : Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
Baby's bris / Susan Wilkowski ; illustrated by Judith Friedman. Rockville, MD : Kar-Ben Copies, 1999.
Blessing the birth of a daughter : Jewish naming ceremonies for girls / edited by Toby Fishbein Reifman, with Ezrat Nashim. Englewood, NJ : Ezrat Nashim, 1976.
Bris Milah : circumcision--the Covenant of Abraham : a compendium of laws, rituals and customs from birth to bris, anthologized from Talmudic and traditional sources / Paysach J. Krohn. Brooklyn : Mesorah, 2005.
May God let him grow : a child's birth in the culture and customs of Bohemian and Moravian Jews / [edited by] Dana Veselská. Prague : Jewish Museum in Prague, 2009.
The practical guide to childbirth on Shabbos and yom tov / by S. Wagschal. Jerusalem ; Spring Valley, N.Y. : Feldheim, 1994.
A candle for grandpa : a guide to the Jewish funeral for children and parents / David Techner and Judith Hirt-Manheimer ; illustrated by Joel Iskowitz. New York : UAHC Press, 1993.
Crossing the Jabbok : illness and death in Ashkenazi Judaism in sixteenth- through nineteenth-century Prague / Sylvie Anne Goldberg ; translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.
Death in Jewish life : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities / edited by Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Avriel Bar-Levav. Boston : De Gruyter, 2014.
Every person's guide to death and dying in the Jewish tradition / Ronald H. Isaacs. Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, 1999.
From this world to the next : Jewish approaches to illness, death & the afterlife. / by Jewish Theological Seminary of America. New York : The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1999.
Jewish insights on death and mourning / edited with introductions by Jack Riemer ; foreword by Sherwin B. Nuland. New York : Schocken Books, 1996.
Jewish reflections on death/ Edited by Jack Riemer. Foreword by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. New York, Schocken Books 1975.
Jews and divorce / Edited by Jacob Freid. New York : KTAV Pub. House, 1968.
Marriage and the Jewish tradition; toward a modern philosophy of family living / by Felix Adler [and others]. New York : Philosophical Library, 1951.
Marriage, divorce, and the abandoned wife in Jewish law : a conceptual understanding of the agunah problems in America / Michael J. Broyde. Hoboken, NJ : KTAV Pub. House, 2001.
The Jewish law of divorce according to Bible and Talmud with some reference to its development in post-Talmudic times, / by David Werner Amram. Philadelphia : [Press of E. Stern & co., inc.], 1896.
The Jewish marriage : source of sanctity / by Joseph Breuer. [Translated from the German by Gertrude Hirschler]. New York : Published for the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Publications Society by Philipp Feldheim, 1956.
The jewish marriage anthology / by Philip and Hanna Goodman. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1965.
The ketuba : Jewish marriage contracts through the ages / David Davidovitch ; foreword, Cecil Roth ; design, Avigail & Itshak Yoresh. Tel Aviv, Israel : E. Levin-Epstein Ltd., 1979.
The theory of marriage in Jewish law / by K. Kahana. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1966.
A summary of the Jewish faith : to be used at the confirmation of children. The Jewish festivals / Dr. G. Gottheil, Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El. New York : Press of Philip Cowen, [18--].
Bar-mitzvah for boyhood, youth, and manhood./ by H. Pereira Mendes. New York : Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 1956.
Coming of age : your Bar/Bat mitzvah / by Benjamin Efron and Alvan D. Rubin. New York : Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1977.
The Bar Mitzvah treasury / edited by Azriel Eisenberg. New York : Behrman House, 1952.
The complete Bar-Mitzvah book with all haftorahs. Including English instructions and glossary of Hebrew religious terms. / by Joseph Marcus. New York, Hebrew Pub. Co. 1943.
Whose bar/bat mitzvah is this anyway? : a guide for parents through a family rite of passage / Judith Davis. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 1998.