Judaism in Practice : : From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period / / ed. by Lawrence Fine.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adelman, Howard Tzvi,; Bar-Levav, Avriel,; Baskin, Judith R.,; Ben-Amos, Dan,; Bland, Kalman P.,; Chajes, J. H.,; Chazan, Robert,; Cohen, Mark R.,; Epstein, Marc Michael,; Fenton, Paul B.,; Fine, Lawrence,; Frank, Daniel,; Goitein, S. D.,; Goldish, Matt,; Green, Arthur,; Hecker, Joel,; Hoffman, Lawrence A.,; Hundert, Gershon David,; Hyman, Paula E.,; Kanarfogel, Ephraim,; Kaplan, Lawrence,; Kraemer, Joel L.,; Krassen, Miles,; Lipman, Jonathan N.,; Marcus, Ivan G.,; Matt, Daniel C.,; Melammed, Renée Levine,; Nadler, Allan,; Saperstein, Marc,; Scheindlin, Raymond P.,; Swartz, Michael D.,; Wasserstrom, Steven M.,; Weissler, Chava,
• HerausgeberIn: Fine, Lawrence,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Readings in Religions ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.) :; 10 halftones, 4 maps

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, it testifies to the enormo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS
• NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CONTENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION
• Rituals of Daily and Festival Practice
• 1 Communal Prayer and Liturgical Poetry
• 2 Italian Jewish Women at Prayer
• 3 Measuring Graves and Laying Wicks
• 4 Adorning the "Bride" on the Eve of the Feast of Weeks
• 5 New Year's Day for Fruit of the Tree
• Rituals of the Life Cycle
• 6 The Role of Women at Rituals of Their Infant Children
• 7 Honey Cakes and Torah: A Jewish Boy Learns His Letters
• 8 Women and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Sexual Politics of Piety
• 9 Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women
• 10 Ritualizing Death and Dying: The Ethical Will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz
• Torah, Learning, and Ethics
• 11 Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah
• 12 An Egyptian Woman Seeks to Rescue Her Husband from a Sufi Monastery
• 13 A Monastic-like Setting for the Study of Torah
• 14 Religious Practice among Italian Jewish Women
• 15 A Mystical Fellowship in Jerusalem
• 16 The Love of Learning among Polish Jews
• Religious Sectarianism and Communities on the Margins
• 17 Jewish Sectarianism in the Near East: A Muslim's Account
• 18 Travel in the Land of Israel
• 19 Karaite Ritual
• 20 Living Judaism in Confucian Culture: Being Jewish and Being Chinese
• Art and Aesthetics
• 21 Defending, Enjoying, and Regulating the Visual
• 22 Illustrating History and Illuminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah
• 23 The Arts of Calligraphy and Composition, and the Love of Books
• 24 Jewish Preaching in Fifteenth-Century Spain
• Magic and Mysticism
• 25 The Book of the Great Name
• 26 Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women
• 27 Mystical Eating and Food Practices in the Zohar
• 28 Devotional Rites in a Sufi Mode
• 29 Pietistic Customs from Safed
• 30 Jewish Exorcism: Early Modern Traditions and Transformations
• 31 Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Personal Practices of a Hasidic Master
• Remarkable Lives
• 32 The Life of Moses ben Maimon
• 33 Dolce of Worms: The Lives and Deaths of an Exemplary Medieval Jewish Woman and Her Daughters
• 34 The Earliest Hebrew First-Crusade Narrative
• 35 Leon Modena's Autobiography
• 36 The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi
• 37 The Life of Glikl of Hameln
• 38 Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov
• 39 The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna
• APPENDIX The Jewish Festivals
• INDEX