Minhagim : : Custom and Practice in Jewish Life / / ed. by Hasia Diner, Jean Baumgarten, Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Simha Goldin, Joseph Isaac Lifshitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: BarOr-Bing, Noga,; Baumgarten, Jean,; Bedzow, Ira,; Broyde, Michael J.,; Bunis, David M.,; Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi,; Goldin, Simha,; Habas, Lihi,; Hacohen, Aviad,; Kanarfogel, Ephraim,; Lifshitz, Joseph Isaac,; Meyer, Michael A.,; Sarig, Ya’acov,; Weiss, Amy,
• HerausgeberIn: Baumgarten, Jean,; Diner, Hasia ,; Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi,; Goldin, Simha,; Lifshitz, Joseph Isaac,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking Diaspora ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 346 p.)

Parallel to the Halakhic laws, the minhagim (customs) are dependent on local practices and the regional schools of sages and rabbis. The minhagim played a decisive role in the history of the Jewish communities and in the formation of traditions of religious rulings. They gave stability, continuity,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Details of the Contributors
• Introduction
• Customs and Material Culture in Antiquity
• The Use of Amulets in the Jewish Community of Late Antiquity in the Land of Israel: A Glass Pendant Decorated with the Binding of Isaac, from the Hecht Collection
• Conservatism, Innovation and Custom in the Middle Ages
• R. Eliezer b. Natan (the Ravan): Conservator or Innovator?
• Compromise and Inclusivity in Establishing Minhag and Halakha: Contextualizing the Approach of R. Meir of Rothenburg
• Custom in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages
• Sefer Haminhagim (Venice, 1593) and Its Dissemination in the Ashkenazi World
• The Lobed Matzot: A Trialogue of Image, Text, and Custom
• Memory Preservation and Custom in the Modern Era
• Tikkun ‘Shovavim’ in the Slonim Hasidut
• The Role of Custom in the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura
• Sephardic Customs as a Discourse Topic in the Ladinokomunita Internet Correspondence Circle
• To Plant Is to Remember: The B’nai B’rith Martyrs’ Forest and American Jewish Fundraising Customs for an ‘Evergreen’ Holocaust Memorial
• Demons in the Yemenite Life Cycle: Folk Beliefs and Customs of Avoidance
• The Changing Role of Religious Custom in Reform Judaism
• ‘Everything Is according to the American Custom’: A New Custom for a New Country
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names
• Index of Places