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When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son
When a Jew Dies The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son
Author: Samuel C. Heilman, Samuel Heilman
Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses the boundary between the academic and the religiou...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520219656
ISBN-10: 0520219651
Publication Date: 5/30/2001
Pages: 271
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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