May God remember
Subtitle: Yizkor : memory and memorializing in Judaism
By: edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Series: Prayers of awe; Prayers of awe
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vermont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781580236898
Subjects: Texts; Jewish mourning customs; Judaism; Liturgy; Hazkarat neshamot; Erinnerung; Gedenken; Judentum; Kaddish
Other titles: Yizkor; Memory and memorializing in Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273).

Prayers in both English and Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Theology and practice; title: Historical insights; title: The liturgy; title: Interpretations and reflections.; title: Introduction:; title: Yizkor and memorial in Jewish trdition  -- Lawrence A. Hoffman; title: Hashkavah: memorializing the dead in Sephardi practice  -- Yoram Bitton; title: Remembering the dead: by us and by God  -- Lawrence A. Hoffman; title: Remembering the dead as halakhic peril  -- Daniel Landes; title: Memorializing the Shoah  -- Dalia Marx; title: Sites and subjects: memory in Israeli culture  -- Wendy Zierler; title: Would Jeremiah have recited Yizkor? Yizkor and the Bible  -- Marc Zvi Brettler; title: Hazkarat n'shamot ("memorial of souls"): how it all began  -- Solomon B. Freehof; title: Kaddish and memorial services  -- Jakob J. Petuchowski; title: Yizkor: a microcosm of liturgical interconnectivity  -- Eric L. Friedland; title: "Service for the souls": the origin of modern memorial services, 1819 to 1938  -- Annette M. Boeckler; title: The traditional Yizkor service  -- translation and commentary by Joel M. Hoffman; title: What happens when we die: intimations of immortality  -- Lawrence A. Englander; title: The age of amusement  -- Edward Feinstein; title: Remembering through forgetting: Yizkor as unshared experience  -- Shoshana Boyd Gelfand; title: Hard to plan the day  -- Edwin Goldberg; title: Why art thou cast down?  -- Andrew Goldstein; title: Where do people go when they die?  -- Joel M. Hoffman; title: Remembering Abraham Geiger  -- Walter Homolka; title: An ongoing conversation with empty chairs  -- Delphine Horvilleur; title: Ode to mortality  -- Karyn D. Kedar; title: What is Yizkor for?  -- Catherine Madsen; title: "Empty-handed before Adonai"  -- Jonathan Magonet; title: The hippo of recollection stirring in the muddy waters of the mind  -- Charles H. Middleburgh; title: Re-membering: Yizkor and the dynamics of death  -- Jay Henry Moses; title: Prayer for the dead; promise by the living  -- Aaron D. Panken; title: When the golden shields are gone  -- Jack Riemer; title: A soul-ar eclipse  -- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; title: To tear and to sew  -- David Stern; title: Remembering our past in service to our future  -- David A. Teutsch; title: "For I pledge tzʼdakah on her behalf"  -- Margaret Moers Wenig; title: A time to re-member  -- Ron Wolfson; title: Remembering our summers in the autumns of our years  -- Daniel G. Zemel; title: Appendix A. Full text of Hashkavah, the Sephardi memorial prayer, with translation --; title: Appendix B. El Malei Rachamim: a chronicle from the Chmielnicki Pogroms  -- translation and commentary by Joel M. Hoffman; title: Appendix C. El Malei Rachamim: music of 1888 -- composition by Eduard Birnbaum.