Death in Jewish Life : Burial and Mourning Customs among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities.

Intro -- Editors' Foreword -- List of Acknowledgements -- The Contributors and Summaries of their Essays -- Section 1: Death in Life -- Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts -- The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity -- A Response to Professor Paxton's Paper -- From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazi Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu -- Section 2: Texts in Society -- Christian Influences on the Yahrzeit Qaddish -- Investigation into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq ha-Din -- Ha-Ṣur Tamim be-khol Po'al: On some Italian roots of the Poetic Ṣidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazi rite -- Av ha-raḥamim: On the 'Father of Mercy' Prayer -- Liturgy as Personal Memorial for the Victims in 1096 -- 'When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not found': Corporeal Revenants in Medieval Ashkenaz -- The Early Ashkenazi Practice of Burial wih Religious Paraphernalia -- Section 3: Re-Placing the Dead -- The Dead as Living History: On the Publication of Die Grabsteine vom jüdischen Friedhof in Würzburg 1147-1346 -- Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza -- The Structures of Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Padua -- The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A Project to Publish a Complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries -- Romans in Istanbul. Part 1: Historical and Literary Introduction -- Romans in Istanbul. Part 2: Texts and Photographs -- Indexes -- Primary Sources -- Names -- Subjects.

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

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