Death in Jewish life : : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities / / edited by Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Avriel Bar-Levav.

• Superior document: Studia Judaica Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums, Band 78
• Author: Reif, Stefan C.
• TeilnehmendeR: Reif, Stefan C., 1944-; Lehnardt, Andreas,; Bar-Levav, Avriel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, [Germany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Band 78.; Rethinking diaspora ; Volume 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Notes: Includes indexes.

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 confer...

Table of Contents

• Front matter
• Editors' Foreword
• List of Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Details of the Contributors, with Summaries of their Essays
• Section 1: On Death in Life
• Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts / Bar-Levav, Avriel
• The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity / Paxton, Frederick S.
• A Response to Professor Paxton's Paper / Reif, Stefan C.
• From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu / Shepkaru, Shmuel
• Section 2: Texts in Society: Liturgy and Ritual
• Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish / Lehnardt, Andreas
• Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din / Langer, Ruth
• Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po'al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite / Lehnardt, Peter Sh.
• Av ha-raḥamim: On the 'Father of Mercy' Prayer / Lifshitz, Joseph Isaac
• Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 / Gross, Abraham
• When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not Found': Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz / Schur, Yechiel Y.
• The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial with Religious Paraphernalia / Barak, Nati
• Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead
• The Dead as Living History: On the publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147-1346 / Reiner, Avraham (Rami)
• Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza / Hüttenmeister, Nathanja / Lehnardt, Andreas
• The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua / Malkiel, David
• 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 / Perani, Mauro
• Romans in Istanbul Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction / Rozen, Minna
• Romans in Istanbul Part 2: Texts and Photographs / Rozen, Minna
• Indexes