Pilgrimage and the Jews
By: David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson.
Contributors: Davidson, Linda Kay.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History.; Jewish shrines.; Jerusalem in Judaism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Jewish pilgrims?; title: 2. Beginnings : converging on Jerusalem; title: 3. Jerusalem, the state cult, and the three harvest pilgrimages; title: 4. Pilgrimage in the early diasporas; title: 5. Life on the pilgrimage road; title: 6. Oh, Zion : Jerusalem in the center; title: 7. Jewish saints be praised!; title: 8. The cult of the Rebbe : Hasidic pilgrimage; title: 9. Praying at the tzadiq's tomb : Sephardic pilgrimage; title: 10. The shrines of the Holocaust; title: 11. The shrines of nationhood; title: 12. Israel as a shrine for the diaspora; title: 13. Roots pilgrimage; title: 14. Shrine wars.