Bar mitzvah : a history / Michael Hilton.
"The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father that he was no longer responsible for his thirteen-year-old son. Today, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls are more popular t...
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Lincoln ; London :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2014]
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