When a Jes Dies: The ethnography of a bereaved son. - Heilman, Samuel C.,
The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son
KORTE INHOUD
Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses the boundary between the academic and the religious, the personal and the general, reflecting Heilman's changing roles as social scientist, bereaved son, and observant Jew. Not only describing but explaining the cultural meaning behind Jewish practices and traditions, this extraordinary book shows what is particular and what is universal about Jewish experiences of death, bereavement, mourning, and their aftermath.
Heilman describes the many phases of death: the moment between life and death, the transitional period when the dead have not yet been laid to rest, the preparation of the body (tahara), the Jewish funeral, the early seven-day period of mourning (shivah), the nearly twelve months during which the kaddish is ...
Heilman describes the many phases of death: the moment between life and death, the transitional period when the dead have not yet been laid to rest, the preparation of the body (tahara), the Jewish funeral, the early seven-day period of mourning (shivah), the nearly twelve months during which the kaddish is ...
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2001 Uitgever: University of California Press 272 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0520236785 ISBN-13: 9780520236783Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, 272 pp. 15x22x2 cm. With notes, index and bibliography. In very good condition. [Auteur: Heilman, Samuel C.,] [Uitgever: University of California Press: Berkeley, 2001] [Titel: When a Jes Dies: The ethnography of a bereaved son]
