Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - through Nineteenth-Century Prague (Contraversions : Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 3)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 21, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780520081499
Subjects: Customs; Death & dying; Jewish studies; Judaism; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Jewish mourning customs; Sociology; History Of Jews; Rites And Ceremonies Of Jews; Religion; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Europe - General; General; Judaism - Rituals & Practice; Social Science / Jewish Studies; Czech Republic; Death; History; Prague; Religious aspects
First sentence: Questions about the origin and finality of the individual have haunted humanity over the course of its development.