| Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - Through Nineteenth-Century Prague Volume 3 Contributor(s): Goldberg, Sylvie-Anne (Author), Cosman, Carol (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0520081498 ISBN-13: 9780520081499 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Rituals & Practice - Social Science | Jewish Studies - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 296.445 |
| LCCN: 95-2035 |
| Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Cultu |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.25" W x 9.23" (1.66 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 mentalit s 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. |