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2. “Death Entered into Our Window” Living and Dead in Cemetery and Synagogue
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Rachel L. Greenblatt
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Note on Transliterations and Names xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction. That Children “Will Rise Up to Tell Their Children” 1
- 1. “Metropolis of Jews’ Streets” Shapes of Prague Memory in Jewish Town and Jewish Time 11
- 2. “Death Entered into Our Window” Living and Dead in Cemetery and Synagogue 47
- 3. “A Remembrance for Me and My Descendants” Autobiographical Writing and Familial Commemoration 83
- 4. “Established the Day” Authorship, Communal Authority, and Local Traditions 117
- 5. “That a Future Generation Will Know” Narrating History in Book, Tale, and Song 136
- 6. “In the Language People Understand” Print and Manuscript; Vernacular and Sacred; Women and Men 168
- Conclusion. “No Need to Name It All”: Toward a History of Forgetting 187
- Notes 203
- Selected Bibliography 265
- Index 289
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Note on Transliterations and Names xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction. That Children “Will Rise Up to Tell Their Children” 1
- 1. “Metropolis of Jews’ Streets” Shapes of Prague Memory in Jewish Town and Jewish Time 11
- 2. “Death Entered into Our Window” Living and Dead in Cemetery and Synagogue 47
- 3. “A Remembrance for Me and My Descendants” Autobiographical Writing and Familial Commemoration 83
- 4. “Established the Day” Authorship, Communal Authority, and Local Traditions 117
- 5. “That a Future Generation Will Know” Narrating History in Book, Tale, and Song 136
- 6. “In the Language People Understand” Print and Manuscript; Vernacular and Sacred; Women and Men 168
- Conclusion. “No Need to Name It All”: Toward a History of Forgetting 187
- Notes 203
- Selected Bibliography 265
- Index 289