The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial with Religious Paraphernalia

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Editors’ Foreword vii
3. List of Acknowledgements ix
4. Contents xi
5. Details of the Contributors, with Summaries of their Essays xiii
6. Section 1: On Death in Life
7. Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts 3
8. The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity 17
9. A Response to Professor Paxton’s Paper 43
10. From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu 51
11. Section 2: Texts in Society: Liturgy and Ritual
12. Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish 65
13. Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din 79
14. Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po‘al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite 99
15. Av ha-raḥamim: On the ‘Father of Mercy’ Prayer 141
16. Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 155
17. When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not Found’: Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz 171
18. The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial with Religious Paraphernalia 187
19. Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead
20. The Dead as Living History: On the publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147–1346 199
21. Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza 213
22. The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua 225
23. 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 241
24. Romans in Istanbul Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction 289
25. Romans in Istanbul Part 2: Texts and Photographs 327
26. Indexes 359