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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... Jerusalem, New York, Berlin, and Kiev. The study of life cycle rites sheds light on the dynamic processes through which Judaism and Jews persisted as communities of a recognizable religious culture. They did this in two stages. Jews ...
... Jerusalem in 70 C.E. to the middle of the fourth 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 ...
... , the text of the wedding contract, or ketubbah, and the groom's breaking a glass at the end of the wedding in memory of the destruction of Jerusalem; reciting mourner's Kaddish, saying Yizkor memorial prayers four times 7 Introduction.
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times Ivan G. Marcus. Jerusalem; reciting mourner's Kaddish, saying Yizkor memorial prayers four times a year, and lighting candles and marking in other ways the anniversary of the death of one's ...
... Jerusalem used to do. Some went to the house of a feast; others to the house of a mourner; some to the feast of the betrothed; others, to the feast of the married; some to the seven-day [feast after] a son [is born]; others to collect ...
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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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