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| Princeton Readings in Religions | |
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| Note on Transliteration and Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rituals of Daily and Festival Practice | |
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| Communal Prayer and Liturgical Poetry | |
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| Italian Jewish Women at Prayer | |
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| Measuring Graves and Laying Wicks | |
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| Adorning the "Bride" on the Eve of the Feast of Weeks | |
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| New Year's Day for Fruit of the Tree | |
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| Rituals of the Life Cycle | |
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| The Role of Women at Rituals of Their Infant Children | |
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| Honey Cakes and Torah: A Jewish Boy Learns His Letters | |
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| Women and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Sexual Politics of Piety | |
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| Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women | |
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| Ritualizing Death and Dying: The Ethical Will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz | |
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| Torah, Learning, and Ethics | |
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| Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah | |
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| An Egyptian Woman Seeks to Rescue Her Husband from a Sufi Monastery | |
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| A Monastic-like Setting for the Study of Torah | |
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| Religious Practice among Italian Jewish Women | |
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| A Mystical Fellowship in Jerusalem | |
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| The Love of Learning among Polish Jews | |
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| Religious Sectarianism and Communities on the Margins | |
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| Jewish Sectarianism in the Near East: A Muslim's Account | |
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| Travel in the Land of Israel | |
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| Karaite Ritual | |
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| Living Judaism in Confucian Culture: Being Jewish and Being Chinese | |
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| Art and Aesthetics | |
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| Defending, Enjoying, and Regulating the Visual | |
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| Illustrating History and Illuminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah | |
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| The Arts of Calligraphy and Composition, and the Love of Books | |
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| Jewish Preaching in Fifteenth-Century Spain | |
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| Magic and Mysticism | |
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| The Book of the Great Name | |
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| Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women | |
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| Mystical Eating and Food Practices in the Zohar | |
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| Devotional Rites in a Sufi Mode | |
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| Pietistic Customs from Safed | |
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| Jewish Exorcism: Early Modern Traditions and Transformations | |
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| Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Personal Practices of a Hasdic Master | |
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| Remarkable Lives | |
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| The Life of Moses ben Maimon | |
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| Dolce of Worms: The Lives and Deaths of an Exemplary Medieval Jewish Woman and Her Daughters | |
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| The Earliest Hebrew First-Crusade Narrative | |
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| Leon Modena's Autobiography | |
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| The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi | |
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| The Life of Glikl of Hameln | |
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| Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov | |
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| The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna | |
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| The Jewish Holidays | |
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| Index | |