The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern TimesUniversity of Washington Press, 1 de mar. de 2012 - 376 páginas In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events of birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat mitzvah and confirmation; engagement, betrothal, and marriage; and aging, dying, and remembering. Customs in Jewish tradition, such as the presence of godparents at a circumcision, the use of a four-poled canopy at a wedding, and the placing of small stones on tombstones, are discussed. In each chapter, detailed descriptions walk the reader through such ceremonies as early modern and contemporary circumcision, weddings, and funerals. |
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... Christian, Muslim or secular, adapted some customs, and rejected others. Future generations then regarded the ... Christians, or Muslims. Inward acculturation is what the Talmud meant when it interpreted the verse in Genesis about two of ...
... Christians ate with spoons and knives in medieval Europe because nothing else was available; the table fork had not yet been ... Christian, Muslim, or contemporary contexts. In some cases, there is direct evidence; in most, not. But by ...
... Christian century.6 In contrast, medieval Jewish communities in Muslim and Christian lands down to early modern times do not betray anything of the kind, except for a tiny elite in Muslim society, the courtier class, who were culturally ...
... Christian identity. Apart from these, there were a few Jewish individuals who were free thinkers and lived at the margins of Jewish and Christian society. Otherwise, Jewish communities that remained in Christian Europe, mainly in the ...
... Christian Spain and in early modern Europe. These were unusual situations and even provoked opposition from other Jews.24 Perhaps it is not an accident, then, that the midrash on Ecclesiastes compares the one-year-old child to a “king ...
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2 Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah Confirmation | 82 |
3 Engagement Betrothal Marriage | 124 |
4 Aging Dying Remembering | 193 |
Conclusions | 249 |
Glossary | 255 |
Notes | 261 |
Bibliography | 301 |
Index | 347 |
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