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almafu_9958354128402883
Format:
1 online resource(xix,379p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110339185
Series Statement:
Studia Judaica; 78
Content:
This volume examines in inter-disciplinary perspective the degree to which the medieval Ashkenazi were innovative in the area of communal activity surrounding burial and mourning customs. The topics cover liturgical poetry as well as statutory prayers; confessions, final testimonies and acts of charity; funeral and mourning rites; the influences of the surrounding non-Jewish; the effects of major acts of persecution.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Editors’ Foreword --
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List of Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Details of the Contributors, with Summaries of their Essays --
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Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts /
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The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity /
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A Response to Professor Paxton’s Paper /
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From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu /
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Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish /
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Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din /
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Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po‘al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite /
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Av ha-raḥamim: On the ‘Father of Mercy’ Prayer /
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Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 /
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When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not Found’: Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz /
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The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial with Religious Paraphernalia /
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The Dead as Living History: On the publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147–1346 /
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Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza /
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The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua /
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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 Centuries /
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Romans in Istanbul Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction /
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Romans in Istanbul Part 2: Texts and Photographs /
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Indexes.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110338614
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339192
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110339185
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339185
