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Author | : Joseph Isaac Lifshitz |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110386658 |
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Parallel to the Halakhic laws, the minhagim (customs) are dependent on local practices and the regional schools of sages and rabbis. The minhagim played a decisive role in the history of the Jewish communities and in the formation of traditions of religious rulings. They gave stability, continuity, and authority to the local institutions. The impact of Jewish custom on daily life cannot be overestimated. Evolving spontaneously as an ascending process, it presents undercurrents that emanate from the folk, gradually bringing about changes that eventually become part of the legislative code. It further reflects influences of social, cultural, and mythological tendencies and local historical elements of every-day life of the period. The aim of this volume is to examine the concept of minhag in the broadest sense of the word. Focusing on the relationship between various types of customs and their impact on every aspect of Jewish life, the volume studies the historical, anthropological, religious, and cultural development and function of rites and rituals in establishing the Jewish self-definition and the identity of the local communities that adhered to them. The volume’s articles cover the subject of custom from three perspectives: an analysis of the theoretical and legal definition of custom, an analysis of the social and historical aspects of custom, and an anecdotal study of several particular customs. Customs are a wonderful historical prism by which to examine fluctuations and changes in Jewish life.
Author | : Diane Wolfthal |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9004139052 |
Download Picturing Yiddish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books from sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs, and four printed volumes - two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables.
Author | : Mark Podwal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-05-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780878205097 |
Download A Collage of Customs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Modernized illustrations based upon 16th-century mingahim books (books of Jewish customs), with an introduction, and descriptions of each image"--
Author | : Daniel Sperber |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780881256048 |
Download Why Jews Do what They Do Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explanations on the whys and wherefores of many Jewish customs.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Download Sefer Haminhagim Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Like a friendly elder chasid at one's elbow, this translation of Sefer Haminhagim is a welcome guide to the customs of Chabad with regard to the practice of mitzvot throughout the year.
Author | : Benjamin Brown |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3111359050 |
Download Holiness and Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the “bar of holiness” mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher threshold expected of Hasidim, intended to justify their title as hasidim (“pious”). How did the hasidic masters perceive the enactment of these new norms at a time in which the halakhah had already been solidified? How did they explain the normative power of these customs over communities and individuals, and how did they justify customs that diverged from the positive halakhah? This book analyzes the answers given by nineteenth-century hasidic authors. It then examines a test case: kedushah (“holiness”), or sexual abstinence among married men, a particularly restrictive norm enacted by several twentieth-century hasidic groups. Through the use of theoretical tools and historical contextualization, the book elucidates the normative circles of hasidic life, their religious and social sources and their interrelations.
Author | : Shlomo Berger |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042914292 |
Download Speaking Jewish - Jewish Speak Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the world of Jewish studies continues to expand, Studia Rosenthaliana enters a new phase with this 36th volume, the first in a series of yearbooks. In this edition, an international panel of authors takes an innovative look at the theme of Jewish multilingualism from various, multidisciplined perspectives. Several research projects on various aspects of Dutch Jewish history and culture are currently under way at academic institutions in Amsterdam and elsewhere, while Dutch academics are regularly involved in extensive international research projects. The research that resulted in the articles presented in this volume of Studia Rosenthaliana was carried out by the Menasseh ben Israel Institute and the University of Amsterdam in collaboration with the Solomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute in Duisburg and forms part of a larger programme on Yiddish in the Netherlands currently being conducted together with the Abteilung fur Jiddische Sprache, Kultur und Literatur at Heinrich Heine Universitat, Dusseldorf.
Author | : Nathaniel Deutsch |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674062647 |
Download The Jewish Dark Continent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.” Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive—what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite—which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction. Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.
Author | : Marc Angel |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780881256758 |
Download Exploring Sephardic Customs and Traditions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the centuries, Jewish communities throughout the world adopted customs that enhanced and deepened their religious observances. These customs, or minhagim, became powerful elements in the religious consciousness of the Jewish people. It is important to recognize that minhagim are manifestations of a religious worldview, a philosophy of life. They are not merely quaint or picturesque practices, but expressions of a community's way of enhancing the religious experience. A valuable resource for Sephardim and Ashkenazim alike.
Author | : Roman Malek |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351566296 |
Download From Kaifeng to Shanghai Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The collection presents the proceedings of the international colloquium held in Sankt Augustin in 1997 and additional materials. The articles are written in English, German or Chinese (with English abstracts). The volume includes a general index with glossary.