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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... Jewish-Christian identity. Apart from these, there were a few Jewish individuals who were free thinkers and lived at ... wedding, the bride wearing a white dress, and her circling the groom three or seven times; an officiating rabbi who ...
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times Ivan G. Marcus. dard Jewish naming ceremony for a newborn boy or girl, or a wedding or funeral from earliest times to today, at any time along the way different Jewish communities throughout ...
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times Ivan G. Marcus. New Jewish Baby Book (Summit Books, 1985), The New Jewish Wedding (Simon and Schuster, 1985), and Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead and Mourn as a Jew ...
... wedding or a funeral from my own experiences in the United States or Israel mainly in the second half of that century and beyond. Unlike most books written over the last five hundred years about Jewish ceremonies, this one is neither a ...
... wedding canopy, the Aramaic genana being equivalent to the Hebrew huppah, in antiquity huppah meant wedding chamber, not canopy. The four-poled wedding canopy was an innovation in early modern Germany (see Chapter 3). There also are ...
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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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