{"product_id":"judaism-in-practice-from-the-middle-ages-through-the-early-modern-period-9780691057873","title":"Judaism in Practice  From the Middle Ages through","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides a view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, this book testifies to the enormous variety of practices that characterized Judaism between 600 and 1800 CE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lawrence Fine ... has assembled an impressive array of writings that explore the variegated ways in which Jews have practiced their religion... By giving us a variety of texts and materials that go beyond the boundaries of conventional sources, Fine has opened up ways of thinking about the Jewish experience that are likely to challenge readers' expectations. In doing so, he and his contributors raise essential questions about the nature of Judaism as a religion and a culture, shake readers out of complacency and leave us to wonder at the marvelous scope of the Jewish people's history.\"--Barry W. Holtz, The Forward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Readings in Religions vii  Note on Transliteration and Acknowledgments ix  Contributors xv  Introduction by Lawrence Fine 1  Rituals of Daily and Festival Practice  1. Communal Prayer and Liturgical Poetry by Raymond P. Scheindlin 39  2. Italian Jewish Women at Prayer by Howard Tzvi Adelman 52  3. Measuring Graves and Laying Wicks by Chava Weissler 61  4. Adorning the \"Bride\" on the Eve of the Feast of Weeks by Daniel C. Matt 74  5. New Year's Day for Fruit of the Tree by Miles Krassen 81  Rituals of the Life Cycle  6. The Role of Women at Rituals of Their Infant Children by Lawrence A. Hoffman 99  7. Honey Cakes and Torah: A Jewish Boy Learns His Letters by Ivan G. Marcus 115  8. Women and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Sexual Politics of Piety by Judith R. Baskin 131  9. Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto Jewish Women by Renee Levine Melammed 143  10. Ritualizing Death and Dying: The Ethical Will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz by Avriel Bar-Levav 155  Torah, Learning, and Ethics  11. Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah by Lawrence Kaplan 171  12. An Egyptian Woman Seeks to Rescue Her Husband from a Sufi Monastery by S. D. Goitein 186  13. A Monastic-like Setting for the Study of Torah by Ephraim Kanarfogel 191  14. Religious Practice among Italian Jewish Women by Howard Tzvi Adelman 203  15. A Mystical Fellowship in Jerusalem by Lawrence Fine 210  16. The Love of Learning among Polish Jews by Gershon David Hundert 215  Religious Sectarianism and Communities on the Margins  17. Jewish Sectarianism in the Near East: A Muslim's Account by Steven M. Wasserstrom 229  18. Travel in the Land of Israel by Lawrence Fine 237  19. Karaite Ritual by Daniel Frank 24E 20. Living Judaism in Confucian Culture: Being Jewish and Being Chinese by Jonathan N. Lipman 265  Art and Aesthetics  21. Defending, Enjoying, and Regulating the Visual by Kalman P. Bland 281  22. Illustrating History and Illluminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah by Marc Michael Epstein 298  23. The Arts of Calligraphy and Composition, and the Love of Books Lawrence Fine 318  24. Jewish Preaching in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Marc Saperstein 325  Magic and Mysticism  25. The Book of the Great Name by Michael D. Swartz 341  26. Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto Jewish Women by Renee Levine Melammed 348  27. Mystical Eating and Food Practices in the Zohar by Joel Hecker 353  28. Devotional Rites in a Sufi Mode by Paul B. Fenton 364  29. Pietistic Customs from Safed by Lawrence Fine 375  30. Jewish Exorcism: Early Modem Traditions and Transformations by J. H. Chajes 386  31. Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Personal Practices of a Hasdic Master by Arthur Green 399  Remarkable Lives  32. The Life of Moses ben Maimon by Joel L. Kraemer 413  33. Dolce of Worms: The Lives and Deaths of an Exemplary Medieval Jewish Woman and Her Daughters by Judith R. Baskin 429  34. The Earliest Hebrew First-Crusade Narrative by Robert Chazan 438  35. Leon Modena's Autobiography by Mark R. Cohen 453  36. The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi by Matt Goldish 470  37. The Life of Glikl of Hameln by Paula E. Hyman 483  38. Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov by Dan Ben-Amos 498  39. The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna by Allan Nadler 513  Appendix. The Jewish Holidays 521  Index 523","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359102173527,"sku":"9780691057873","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691057873.jpg?v=1754123597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/judaism-in-practice-from-the-middle-ages-through-the-early-modern-period-9780691057873","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}