ISBN:
1569803005
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 236 Seiten
,
21 cm
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
296.4/5
Keywords:
Kaddish
;
Kaddish
Abstract:
A first appraisal -- Forever and to all eternity -- Kaddish melodies -- The eternal prayer -- Survival of the Kaddish notwithstanding the Holocaust (Sho'ah) -- A study of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdishev as a Chassidic force -- Chassidic customs and thoughts in memorializing the deceased -- Ancillary effects of the Kaddish -- Kaddish and women -- Chassidism, Kaddish, and Kotzk -- Prophets, mysticism, and Kaddish -- Yahrzeit and Yizkor: Christian origins? -- Judaism and the idea of death -- The psychological dynamic to death in Judaism -- Did the crusades give birth to the Kaddish for the common man vis-à-vis the elite? -- More on the crusades and Kaddish -- The Jew as a non-citizen and the church synod -- The church synods -- The crusades--suffering creates prayer -- The ghetto -- Blood libel and the massacre of Jews -- Black death & Jewish "Confession" -- The expulsion from Spain -- Kaddish and the concept of death -- The nature of death.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225 and index
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