Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - Through Nineteenth-Century Prague Volume 3

by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg

Book Overview

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 mentalit s methods to a topic in Jewish cultural studies. Focusing on Prague, then the center of Central and Western European Jewry, the author draws on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520081498
• ISBN13: 9780520081499
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"