Death in Jewish Life (eBook)

Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities

Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt, Avriel Bar-Levav (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
398 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-037748-4 (ISBN)

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Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.

Stefan C. Reif, St John's College, Cambridge, UK; Andreas Lehnardt, Mainz University; Avriel Bar-Levav, Open University, Israel.

Inhalt

Editors’ Foreword 7
List of Acknowledgements 9
The Contributors and Summaries of their Essays 13
Section 1: Death in Life 21
Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts 23
The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity 37
A Response to Professor Paxton’s Paper 63
From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu 71
Section 2: Texts in Society 83
Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish 85
Investigation into the Early European Forms of the S.idduq ha-Din 99
Ha-S.ur Tamim be-khol Po‘al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic S.idduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite 119
Av ha-rah.amim: On the ‘Father of Mercy’ Prayer 161
Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 175
‘When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not found’: Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz 191
The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial wih Religious Paraphernalia 207
Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead 217
The Dead as Living History: On the Publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147–1346 219
Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza 233
The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua 245
The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A Project to Publish a Complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries 261
Romans in Istanbul. Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction 309
Romans in Istanbul. Part 2: Texts and Photographs 347
Indexes 379
Primary Sources 379
Names 389
Subjects 395

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• ISBN-10: 3-11-037748-9 / 3110377489
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-037748-4 / 9783110377484