| Description |
1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the medieval poetry of Jewish martyrdom -- Faith and fury: medieval Jewish martyrological poetry and resistence to conversion -- "The fire does not burn": the emergence of a martyrological motif -- Burning Jewish books -- Wheels within wheels: literature, history, and methodology -- Une bele qedushah: Troyes 1288 -- Jonathan and his magic book: Paris 1290. |
| Summary |
When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hebrew literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Hebrew literature, Medieval. |
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Martyrdom in literature.
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Martyrdom in literature. |
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Martyrdom -- Judaism.
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Martyrdom -- Judaism. |
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Judaism -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
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Judaism. |
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Northern France. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Jews -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
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Jews. |
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Jews -- Persecutions -- France, Northern.
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Jews -- Persecutions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Einbinder, Susan L., 1954- Beautiful death. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 069109053X 9780691090535 (DLC) 2001055409 (OCoLC)48383557 |
| ISBN |
9781400825257 (electronic book) |
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1400825253 (electronic book) |
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9780691090535 (alkaline paper) |
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069109053X (alkaline paper) |
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069109053X (alkaline paper) |
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