Struggling with tradition : : reservations about active martyrdom in the Middle Ages / / by Abraham Gross.
This monograph discusses the disagreement within the Jewish community concerning the medieval practice of active martyrdom, including slaughter of children and suicide, from the 11th until the 16th centuries. It covers the mainly implicit reservations about and objections in Jewish society to this p...
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| Superior document: | The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill reference library of Judaism ;
Volume 19. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- PREFACE
- Active Martyrdom During the First Crusade in Ashkenaz - Tradition or Innovation?
- CHAPTER ONE
- Active and Passive Martyrdom in Mainz 1096
- CHAPTER TWO
- Halakhic and Human Dilemma: Ashkenazic Struggle with its Own Tradition - Continuity of the Phenomenon and development of Traditions-Halakhic References and Discussions-Conclusions
- CHAPTER THREE
- The Iberian Peninsula
- Introduction-Active Martyrdom in 1391-Ashkenazic Ideology of Martyrdom in Sefarad in the Fifteenth Century-Portugal 1493-1497-The Sources-The Abduction of the Children: Between 1493 and 1497-The "Simple People of Israel" and the "Heads of Israel"; Two Roads to Martyrdom in the Mass Forced-Conversion in Lisbon-Summary.