Book/Printed Material Death in Jewish life : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities

Title

• Death in Jewish life : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities

Names

• Reif, Stefan C., 1944- editor.
• Lehnardt, Andreas, editor.
• Bar-Levav, Avriel, editor.

Created / Published

• [Berlin] : [Boston] : de Gruyter, [2014]

Contents

• Jewish attitudes towards death: a society between time, space and texts / Avriel Bar-Levav -- The early growth of the medieval economy of salvation in Latin Christianity / Frederick S. Paxton -- A response to Professor Paxton's paper / Stefan C. Reif -- From here to hereafter: the Ashkenazi concept of the afterlife in a crusading milieu / Shmuel Shepkaru -- Christian influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish / Andreas Lehnardt -- Investigation into the early European forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din / Ruth Langer -- Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po'al: on some Italian roots of the poetic Ṣidduq ha-Din in early Ashkenazi rite / Peter Sh. Lehnardt -- Av ha-raḥamim: on the 'Father of Mercy' prayer / Joseph Isaac Lifshitz -- Liturgy as personal memorial for the victims of 1096 / Abraham Gross -- 'When the grave was searched, the bones of the deceased were not found': corporeal revenants in medieval Ashkenaz / Yechiel Y. Schur -- The early Ashkenazi practice of burial with religious paraphenalia / Nati Barak -- The dead as living history: on the publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Freidhof in Würzburg 1147-1346 / Avraham (Rami) Reiner -- Newly found medieval gravestones from Magenza / Nathanja Hüttenmeister and Andreas Lehnardt -- The structures of Hebrew epitaph poetry in Padua / David Malkiel -- The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CECHI): a project to publish a complete corpus of epitaphs preserved in Italian Jewish cemeteries / Mauro Perani -- Romans in Istanbul. part 1: historical and literary introduction / Minna Rozen -- Romans in Istanbul. part 2: texts and photographs.

Headings

• -  Jewish mourning customs--Europe
• -  Death--Religious aspects--Judaism
• -  Jews--Europe, Western--History--70-1789
• -  Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 10/19/2020)

Medium

• 1 online resource (xix, 379 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• BM712

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020426110

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020426110

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020426110

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