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

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Death in Jewish life : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities / ed. by Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Avriel Bar-Levav

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Reif, Stefan C. (Editor), Lehnardt, Andreas (Editor), Bar-Levav, Avriel (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2014
Series:	Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums 78 Rethinking diaspora 1
Contents/pieces:	17 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltstext

1. Romans in Istanbul : part 1: historical and literary introduction

2. Liturgy as personal memorial for the victims in 1096

3. The dead as living history : on the publication of "Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147-1346"

4. Romans in Istanbul : part 2: texts and photographs

5. 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 cen...

6. From here to hereafter : the Ashkenazi concept of the afterlife in a crusading milieu

7. A response to Professor Paxton's paper

8. Jewish attitudes towards death : a society between time, space and texts

9. "Ha-Sur Tamim be-khol Po'al" : on some Italian roots of the poetic "Sidduq ha-Din" in the early Ashkenazi rite

10. "When the grave was searched, the bones of the deceased were not found" : corporeal revenants in medieval Ashkenaz

11. The early Ashkenazi practice of burial with religious paraphernalia

12. "Av ha-rahamim" : on the "Father of Mercy" prayer

13. Christian influences on the "Yahrzeit Qaddish"

14. The early growth of the medieval economy of salvation in Latin Christianity

15. Investigation into the early European forms of the "Sidduq ha-Din"

16. The structures of Hebrew epitaph poetry in Padua

17. Newly found medieval gravestones from Magenza