HBI founding director, Shulamit Reinharz, returns to HBI for a conversation with HBI Director Lisa Fishbayn Joffe about her expansive and colorful first person collection, 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World, co-edited with Barbara Vinick. The collection features stories of Jewish brides from six continents and highlights diverse rituals related to weddings past and present. 

Shulamit Reinharz is the founding director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute/HBI, the Brandeis University Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Emerita, and the founding director of the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Barbara Vinick, former Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of Boston University, is secretary of Kulanu, an organization that supports isolated and emerging Jewish communities around the world. 

100 Jewish Brides is the third collection inspired by Shulamit Reinharz's vision of Judaism as practiced by women world-wide. As a past HBI Research Associate, Barbara Vinick collected and edited stories for Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World.  Vinick and Reinharz followed this with the award-winning and co-edited anthology Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World.

Read the Times of Israel review: Global mazel tov! New book chronicles weddings of 100 Jewish brides from around the world, Renee Ghert-Zand, 2/14/2024.

100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World is available at Amazon, Bookshop, and your local bookseller.