Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- Through Nineteenth-Century Prague: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - through Nineteenth-Century Prague: 3 - Rilegato

Goldberg, Sylvie-Anne

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ISBN 10: 0520081498 ISBN 13: 9780520081499

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Sylvie-Anne Goldberg is Associate Professor at the Center for Historical Research, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Carol Cosman is a freelance translator.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Brilliant . . . both in its conceptual originality and in its success in opening up a whole new vista onto early modern Jewish history."—Hillel J. Kieval, University of Washington

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520081498
• ISBN 13: 9780520081499
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 303