Death in Jewish Life Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities

Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international confer...

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Otros Autores: Bar-Levav, Avriel, editor (editor), Lehnardt, Andreas, editor, Reif, Stefan C., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter [2014]
Colección:De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
Rethinking Diaspora ; 1.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43317650*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors' Foreword
  • List of Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Details of the Contributors, with Summaries of their Essays
  • Section 1: On Death in Life
  • Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts / Bar-Levav, Avriel
  • The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity / Paxton, Frederick S.
  • A Response to Professor Paxton's Paper / Reif, Stefan C.
  • From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu / Shepkaru, Shmuel
  • Section 2: Texts in Society: Liturgy and Ritual
  • Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish / Lehnardt, Andreas
  • Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din / Langer, Ruth
  • Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po'al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite / Lehnardt, Peter Sh.
  • Av ha-raḥamim: On the 'Father of Mercy' Prayer / Lifshitz, Joseph Isaac
  • Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 / Gross, Abraham
  • When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not Found': Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz / Schur, Yechiel Y.
  • The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial with Religious Paraphernalia / Barak, Nati
  • Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead
  • The Dead as Living History: On the publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147-1346 / Reiner, Avraham (Rami)
  • Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza / Hüttenmeister, Nathanja / Lehnardt, Andreas
  • The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua / Malkiel, David
  • The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A Project to Publish a Complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries of the Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries / Perani, Mauro
  • Romans in Istanbul Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction / Rozen, Minna
  • Romans in Istanbul Part 2: Texts and Photographs / Rozen, Minna
  • Indexes.