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Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- Through Nineteenth-Century Prague (Contraversions : Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 3)
Crossing the Jabbok Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth Through NineteenthCentury Prague - Contraversions : Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 3
Author: Sylvie-Anne Goldberg
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 mentalits methods to a topic in Jewish cul...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520081499
ISBN-10: 0520081498
Publication Date: 4/21/1997
Pages: 303
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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