Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities
The series focuses on the evolution of Jewish language, literature, communal life and religious ideology outside of the Land of Israel and in relation to it. The approach is inter-disciplinary with an emphasis on mutual influences between Jews and their non-Jewish environment. The series welcomes st...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter, Inc.
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Reviews: | Death in Jewish Life. Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities (2016) (Talabardon, Susanne, 1965 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Studia Judaica Ser
v.78 |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Jews - Europe, Western - History - 70-1789 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783110338614 |
| Summary: | The series focuses on the evolution of Jewish language, literature, communal life and religious ideology outside of the Land of Israel and in relation to it. The approach is inter-disciplinary with an emphasis on mutual influences between Jews and their non-Jewish environment. The series welcomes studies that span different periods and a variety of geographical areas. Intro -- Editors' Foreword -- List of Acknowledgements -- The Contributors and Summaries of their Essays -- Section 1: Death in Life -- Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts -- The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity -- A Response to Professor Paxton's Paper -- From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu -- Section 2: Texts in Society -- Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish -- Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din -- Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po'al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite -- Av ha-raḥamim: On the 'Father of Mercy' Prayer -- Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 -- 'When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not found': Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz -- The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial wih Religious Paraphernalia -- Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead -- The Dead as Living History: On the Publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147-1346 -- Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza -- The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua -- The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A Project to Publish a Complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries -- Romans in Istanbul. Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction -- Romans in Istanbul. Part 2: Texts and Photographs -- Indexes -- Primary Sources -- Names -- Subjects. |
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| ISBN: | 3110339188 |