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Title Death in Jewish life : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities / edited by Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Avriel Bar-Levav
Published Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 379 pages) : illustrations
Series Studia Judaica, 0585-5306 ; Bd. 78
Studia Judaica ; Bd. 78. 0585-5306
Contents Frontmatter -- Editors’ Foreword -- List of Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Details of the Contributors, with Summaries of their Essays -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Summary This volume examines in inter-disciplinary perspective the degree to which the medieval Ashkenazi were innovative in the area of communal activity surrounding burial and mourning customs. The topics cover liturgical poetry as well as statutory prayers; confessions, final testimonies and acts of charity; funeral and mourning rites; the influences of the surrounding non-Jewish; the effects of major acts of persecution
Notes Includes indexes
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Subject Jewish mourning customs -- Europe
Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Jews -- Europe, Western -- History -- 70-1789
Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Jewish mourning customs
Jews
Judaism -- Medieval and early modern period
Europe
Western Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Reif, Stefan C., 1944-
Lehnardt, Andreas
Bar-Levav, Avriel
LC no. 2014014524
ISBN 9783110338614
3110338610
9783110339185
3110339188