Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - through Nineteenth-Century Prague (Volume 3) (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society)
University of California Press, April 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. To date, remarkably little research attention has been paid to the development of Jewish beliefs and rituals about illness and death. Crossing the Jabbok presents an illuminating study of such views and practices among Ashkenazi Jews (1500s-1800s) and is one of..... More