Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern PeriodPrinceton University Press, 18/11/2001 - 537 من الصفحات 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. |
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Communal Prayer and Liturgical Poetry | 39 |
Italian Jewish Women at Prayer | 52 |
Measuring Graves and Laying Wicks | 61 |
Adorning the Bride on the Eve of the Feast of Weeks | 74 |
New Years Day for Fruit of the Tree | 81 |
Rituals of the Life Cycle | 97 |
The Role of Women at Rituals of Their Infant Children | 99 |
Honey Cakes and Torah A Jewish Boy Learns His Letters | 115 |
Defending Enjoying and Regulating the Visual | 281 |
Illustrating History and Illuminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah | 298 |
The Arts of Calligraphy and Composition and the Love of Books | 318 |
Jewish Preaching in FifteenthCentury Spain | 325 |
Magic and Mysticism | 339 |
The Book of the Great Name | 341 |
Visionary Experiences among Spanish CryptoJewish Women | 348 |
Mystical Eating and Food Practices in the Zohar | 353 |
Women and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz The Sexual Politics of Piety | 131 |
LifeCycle Rituals of Spanish CryptoJewish Women | 143 |
Ritualizing Death and Dying The Ethical Will of Naphtali HaKohen Katz | 155 |
Torah Learning and Ethics | 169 |
Moses Maimonides Laws of the Study of Torah | 171 |
An Egyptian Woman Seeks to Rescue Her Husband from a Sufi Monastery | 186 |
A Monasticlike Setting for the Study of Torah | 191 |
Religious Practice among Italian Jewish Women | 203 |
A Mystical Fellowship in Jerusalem | 210 |
The Love of Learning among Polish Jews | 215 |
Religious Sectarianism and Communities on the Margins | 227 |
Jewish Sectarianism in the Near East A Muslims Account | 229 |
Travel in the Land of Israel | 237 |
Karaite Ritual | 248 |
Living Judaism in Confucian Culture Being Jewish and Being Chinese | 265 |
Art and Aesthetics | 279 |
Devotional Rites in a Sufi Mode | 364 |
Pietistic Customs from Safed | 375 |
Jewish Exorcism Early Modern Traditions and Transformations | 386 |
Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl Personal Practices of a Hasidic Master | 399 |
Remarkable Lives | 411 |
The Life of Moses ben Maimon | 413 |
Dolce of Worms The Lives and Deaths of an Exemplary Medieval Jewish Woman and Her Daughters | 429 |
The Earliest Hebrew FirstCrusade Narrative | 438 |
Leon Modenas Autobiography | 453 |
The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi | 470 |
The Life of Glikl of Hameln | 483 |
Israel ben Eliezer the Baal Shem Tov | 498 |
The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna | 513 |
The Jewish Holidays | 521 |
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