To date, remarkably little research attention has been paid to the development of Jewish beliefs and rituals about illness and death. Crossing the Jabbok presents an illuminating study of such views and practices among Ashkenazi Jews (1500s-1800s) and is one of the first works to apply history of mentalités methods to a topic in Jewish cultural studies. Focusing on Prague, then the center of Central and Western European Jewry, the author draws on a rich array of materials to explore what was distinctively Jewish about the approach of Jews to sickness and dying. Her discoveries shed new light on the institution of the hevra kaddisha, or burial society, and many existing customs.
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Ma'avar Yabbok, Yom Kippur, Middle Ages, Lurianic Kabbalah, Rabbi Akiba, Prague Jews, Jews of Prague, Old Town, Aaron Berachia, Courtesy Jewish State Museum, Evel Rabbati, First Crusade, Jacob Emden, Meir of Rothenburg, Rabbi Eliezer, Roman Church, Ashkenazi Jews, Black Plague, Holy One, Isaiah Horowitz, Joseph Hahn, Maria Theresa, Rabbi Yom Tov, Shema Yisrael, Artes Moriendi New!
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Ma'avar Yabbok, Yom Kippur, Middle Ages, Lurianic Kabbalah, Rabbi Akiba, Prague Jews, Jews of Prague, Old Town, Aaron Berachia, Courtesy Jewish State Museum, Evel Rabbati, First Crusade, Jacob Emden, Meir of Rothenburg, Rabbi Eliezer, Roman Church, Ashkenazi Jews, Black Plague, Holy One, Isaiah Horowitz, Joseph Hahn, Maria Theresa, Rabbi Yom Tov, Shema Yisrael, Artes Moriendi New!
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- The Jews of Germany: A Story of Sixteen Centuries. by Marvin Lowenthal in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality by Gershom Scholem in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800 by Dr. Bernard D. Weinryb in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society) by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible by Ilana Pardes in Front Matter
- A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society) by Daniel Boyarin in Front Matter
- Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands by Hillel J. Kieval in Back Matter
- Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe by Derek Penslar in Back Matter
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