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Judaism in practice : from the Middle Ages through the early modern period / Lawrence Fine, editor.

Contributor(s): Fine, Lawrence
Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton readings in religions: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xvi, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691057877 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780691057873 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 -- Sources | Judaism -- Customs and practices -- History | Judaism -- Customs and practices -- Sources | Women in Judaism -- History | Women in Judaism -- Sources | Jews -- BiographyDDC classification: 296/.09/02 LOC classification: BM180 | .J83 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Lawrence Fine -- Communal prayer and liturgical poetry / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- Italian Jewish women at prayer / Howard Tzvi Adelman -- Measuring graves and laying wicks / Chava Weissler -- Adorning the "bride" on the eve of the feast of weeks / Daniel C. Matt -- New Year's Day for fruit of the tree / Miles Krassen -- The role of women at rituals of their infant children / Lawrence A. Hoffman -- Honey cakes and Torah : a Jewish boy learns his letters / Ivan G. Marcus -- Women and ritual immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz : the sexual politics of piety / Judith R. Baskin -- Life-cycle rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish women / Reńee Levine Melammed -- Ritualizing death and dying : the ethical will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz / Avriel Bar-Levav -- Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah / Lawrence Kaplan -- An Egyptian women seeks to rescue her husband from a Sufi monastery / S.D. Goitein -- A monastic-like setting for the Study of Torah / Ephraim Kanarfogel --
Religious practice among Italian Jewish women / Howard Tzvi Adelman -- A mystical fellowship in Jerusalem / Lawrence Fine -- The love of learning among Polish Jews / Gershon David Hundert -- Jewish sectarianism in the Near East : a Muslim's account / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- Travel in the land of Israel / Lawrence Fine -- Karaite ritual / Daniel Frank -- Living Judaism in Confucian culture : being Jewish and being Chinese / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Defending, enjoying, and regulating the visual / Kalman P. Bland -- Illustrating history and illuminating identity in the art of the Passover Haggadah / Marc Michael Epstein -- The arts of calligraphy and composition, and the love of books / Lawrence Fine -- Jewish preaching in fifteenth-century Spain / Marc Saperstein -- The book of the great name / Michael D. Swartz -- Visionary experiences among Spanish crypto-Jewish women / Reńee Levine Melammed -- Mystical eating and food practices in the Zohar / Joel Hecker -- Devotional rites in a Sufi mode / Paul B. Fenton --
Pietistic customs from Safed / Lawrence Fine -- Jewish exorcism : early modern traditions and transformations / J.H. Chafes -- Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl : personal practices of a Hasdic master / Arthur Green -- The life of Moses ben Maimon / Joel L. Kramer -- Dolce of Worms : the lives and deaths of an exemplary Medieval Jewish woman and her daughters / Judith R. Baskin -- The earliest Hebrew first-crusade narrative / Robert Chazan -- Leon Modena's autobiography / Mark R. Cohen -- The early Messianic career of Shabbatai Zvi / Matt Goldish -- The life of Glikl of Hameln / Paula E. Hyman -- Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov / Dan Ben-Amos -- The scholarly life of the Gaon of Vilna / Allan Nadler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lawrence Fine -- Communal prayer and liturgical poetry / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- Italian Jewish women at prayer / Howard Tzvi Adelman -- Measuring graves and laying wicks / Chava Weissler -- Adorning the "bride" on the eve of the feast of weeks / Daniel C. Matt -- New Year's Day for fruit of the tree / Miles Krassen -- The role of women at rituals of their infant children / Lawrence A. Hoffman -- Honey cakes and Torah : a Jewish boy learns his letters / Ivan G. Marcus -- Women and ritual immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz : the sexual politics of piety / Judith R. Baskin -- Life-cycle rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish women / Reńee Levine Melammed -- Ritualizing death and dying : the ethical will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz / Avriel Bar-Levav -- Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah / Lawrence Kaplan -- An Egyptian women seeks to rescue her husband from a Sufi monastery / S.D. Goitein -- A monastic-like setting for the Study of Torah / Ephraim Kanarfogel --

Religious practice among Italian Jewish women / Howard Tzvi Adelman -- A mystical fellowship in Jerusalem / Lawrence Fine -- The love of learning among Polish Jews / Gershon David Hundert -- Jewish sectarianism in the Near East : a Muslim's account / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- Travel in the land of Israel / Lawrence Fine -- Karaite ritual / Daniel Frank -- Living Judaism in Confucian culture : being Jewish and being Chinese / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Defending, enjoying, and regulating the visual / Kalman P. Bland -- Illustrating history and illuminating identity in the art of the Passover Haggadah / Marc Michael Epstein -- The arts of calligraphy and composition, and the love of books / Lawrence Fine -- Jewish preaching in fifteenth-century Spain / Marc Saperstein -- The book of the great name / Michael D. Swartz -- Visionary experiences among Spanish crypto-Jewish women / Reńee Levine Melammed -- Mystical eating and food practices in the Zohar / Joel Hecker -- Devotional rites in a Sufi mode / Paul B. Fenton --

Pietistic customs from Safed / Lawrence Fine -- Jewish exorcism : early modern traditions and transformations / J.H. Chafes -- Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl : personal practices of a Hasdic master / Arthur Green -- The life of Moses ben Maimon / Joel L. Kramer -- Dolce of Worms : the lives and deaths of an exemplary Medieval Jewish woman and her daughters / Judith R. Baskin -- The earliest Hebrew first-crusade narrative / Robert Chazan -- Leon Modena's autobiography / Mark R. Cohen -- The early Messianic career of Shabbatai Zvi / Matt Goldish -- The life of Glikl of Hameln / Paula E. Hyman -- Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov / Dan Ben-Amos -- The scholarly life of the Gaon of Vilna / Allan Nadler.

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