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Death in Jewish Life

Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities
  • Herausgegeben von: Stefan C. Reif , Andreas Lehnardt und Avriel Bar-Levav
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2014
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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 conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.

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Stefan C. Reif, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK; Andreas Lehnardt, Universität Mainz; Avriel Bar-Levav, Open University, Israel.

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"Der von Reif, Lehnardt und Bar-Levav herausgegebene Band bietet einen umfassenden und sehr anregenden Einblick in ein Forschungsfeld, das innerhalb der Judaistik zu Unrecht (noch) ein Randphänomen darstellt."
Susanne Talabardon in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 5/2016

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Frontmatter

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Editors’ Foreword

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List of Acknowledgements

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Contents

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Details of the Contributors, with Summaries of their Essays

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Section 1: On Death in Life
Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts

Avriel Bar-Levav
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The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity

Frederick S. Paxton
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A Response to Professor Paxton’s Paper

Stefan C. Reif
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From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu

Shmuel Shepkaru
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Section 2: Texts in Society: Liturgy and Ritual
Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish

Andreas Lehnardt
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Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din

Ruth Langer
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Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po‘al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite

Peter Sh. Lehnardt
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Av ha-raḥamim: On the ‘Father of Mercy’ Prayer

Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
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Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096

Abraham Gross
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When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not Found’: Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz

Yechiel Y. Schur
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The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial with Religious Paraphernalia

Nati Barak
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Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead
The Dead as Living History: On the publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147–1346

Avraham (Rami) Reiner
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Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza

Nathanja Hüttenmeister und Andreas Lehnardt
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The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua

David Malkiel
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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

Mauro Perani
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Romans in Istanbul Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction

Minna Rozen
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Romans in Istanbul Part 2: Texts and Photographs

Minna Rozen
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Indexes

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eBook veröffentlicht am:
27. August 2014
eBook ISBN:
9783110339185
Gebunden veröffentlicht am:
14. Juli 2014
Gebunden ISBN:
9783110338614
Broschur veröffentlicht am:
26. Juni 2017
Broschur ISBN:
9783110552164
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Frontmatter:
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Inhalt:
379
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339185
eBook ISBN: 9783110339185
Gebunden ISBN: 9783110338614
Broschur ISBN: 9783110552164
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Diaspora; Beerdigungsrituale; Judentum; Folklore
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