Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period

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Title: Judaism in Practice : From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period

Contains: Frontmatter
PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
Rituals of Daily and Festival Practice
1 Communal Prayer and Liturgical Poetry
2 Italian Jewish Women at Prayer
3 Measuring Graves and Laying Wicks
4 Adorning the "Bride" on the Eve of the Feast of Weeks
5 New Year's Day for Fruit of the Tree
Rituals of the Life Cycle
6 The Role of Women at Rituals of Their Infant Children
7 Honey Cakes and Torah: A Jewish Boy Learns His Letters
8 Women and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Sexual Politics of Piety
9 Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women
10 Ritualizing Death and Dying: The Ethical Will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz
Torah, Learning, and Ethics
11 Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah
12 An Egyptian Woman Seeks to Rescue Her Husband from a Sufi Monastery
13 A Monastic-like Setting for the Study of Torah
14 Religious Practice among Italian Jewish Women
15 A Mystical Fellowship in Jerusalem
16 The Love of Learning among Polish Jews
Religious Sectarianism and Communities on the Margins
17 Jewish Sectarianism in the Near East: A Muslim's Account
18 Travel in the Land of Israel
19 Karaite Ritual
20 Living Judaism in Confucian Culture: Being Jewish and Being Chinese
Art and Aesthetics
21 Defending, Enjoying, and Regulating the Visual
22 Illustrating History and Illuminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah
23 The Arts of Calligraphy and Composition, and the Love of Books
24 Jewish Preaching in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Magic and Mysticism
25 The Book of the Great Name
26 Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women
27 Mystical Eating and Food Practices in the Zohar
28 Devotional Rites in a Sufi Mode
29 Pietistic Customs from Safed
30 Jewish Exorcism: Early Modern Traditions and Transformations
31 Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Personal Practices of a Hasidic Master
Remarkable Lives
32 The Life of Moses ben Maimon
33 Dolce of Worms: The Lives and Deaths of an Exemplary Medieval Jewish Woman and Her Daughters
34 The Earliest Hebrew First-Crusade Narrative
35 Leon Modena's Autobiography
36 The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi
37 The Life of Glikl of Hameln
38 Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov
39 The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna
APPENDIX The Jewish Festivals
INDEX

Contributor: Adelman, Howard Tzvi [Contributor]; Bar-Levav, Avriel [Contributor]; Baskin, Judith R. [Contributor]; Ben-Amos, Dan [Contributor]; Bland, Kalman P. [Contributor]; Chajes, J. H. [Contributor]; Chazan, Robert [Contributor]; Cohen, Mark R. [Contributor]; Epstein, Marc Michael [Contributor]; Fenton, Paul B. [Contributor]; Fine, Lawrence [Contributor]; Fine, Lawrence [Editor]; Frank, Daniel [Contributor]; Goitein, S. D. [Contributor]; Goldish, Matt [Contributor]; Green, Arthur [Contributor]; Hecker, Joel [Contributor]; Hoffman, Lawrence A. [Contributor]; Hundert, Gershon David [Contributor]; Hyman, Paula E. [Contributor]; Kanarfogel, Ephraim [Contributor]; Kaplan, Lawrence [Contributor]; Kraemer, Joel L. [Contributor]; Krassen, Miles [Contributor]; Lipman, Jonathan N. [Contributor]; Marcus, Ivan G. [Contributor]; Matt, Daniel C. [Contributor]; Melammed, Renée Levine [Contributor]; Nadler, Allan [Contributor]; Saperstein, Marc [Contributor]; Scheindlin, Raymond P. [Contributor]; Swartz, Michael D. [Contributor]; Wasserstrom, Steven M. [Contributor]; Weissler, Chava [Contributor]

Published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (560 p.); 10 halftones, 4 maps

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691227986

ISBN: 9780691227986

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Keywords: Jews Biography ; Judaism Works to 1900 ; Judaism Customs and practices History Sources ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 Sources ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Women in Judaism History Sources ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen ; Abrahams, Israel ; Abravanel, Benvenida ; Adderet Eliyahu (Bashyachi) ; Adelman, Howard ; Baruch of Arezzo ; Bashyachi, Elijah ; Basola, Moses ; Book of Jubilees ; Buddhism ; Charlemagne ; Confucianism ; Conservative Judaism ; Daggers of Faith (Chazan) ; Dolce of Worms ; Ecstatic Religion (Lewis) ; Elbogen, Ismar ; [...]

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Footnote: In English

Description: This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, it testifies to the enormous variety of practices that characterized Judaism in the twelve hundred years between 600 and 1800 C.E. Its focus on religious practice and experience--how Judaism was actually lived by people from day to day--makes this anthology unique among the few sourcebooks available. The volume encompasses the broad scope and complex texture of Jewish religious practice, taking into account many aspects of Jewish culture that have hitherto been relatively neglected: the religious life of ordinary people, the role and status of women, art and aesthetics, and marginalized as well as remote Jewish communities. It introduces such remarkable personalities as Moses Maimonides, Leon Modena, and Gluckel of Hameln, and presents extraordinary texts on festival practice, Torah study, mystical communities, meditation, exorcism, the practice of charity, and folk rites marking birth and death. Representing state-of-the-art scholarship by distinguished academics from around the world, the volume includes many materials never before translated into English. Each text is preceded by an accessible introduction, making this book suitable for college and university students as well as a general audience. Whether read as a deliberate course of study or dipped into selectively for a glimpse into fascinating Jewish lives and places, Judaism in Practice holds rich rewards for any reader

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