Crossing the Jabbok

Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - through Nineteenth-Century Prague

Sylvie Anne Goldberg author Carol Cosman translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:7th Apr '97

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To date, remarkably little research attention has been paid to the development of Jewish beliefs and rituals about illness and death. Crossing the Jabbok presents an illuminating study of such views and practices among Ashkenazi Jews (1500s-1800s) and is one of the first works to apply history of mentalites methods to a topic in Jewish cultural studies. Focusing on Prague, then the center of Central and Western European Jewry, the author draws on a rich array of materials to explore what was distinctively Jewish about the approach of Jews to sickness and dying. Her discoveries shed new light on the institution of the hevra kaddisha, or burial society, and many existing customs.

ISBN: 9780520081499

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 726g

336 pages