Beautiful death :: Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France /

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 fo...

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1. Verfasser: Einbinder, Susan L., 1954-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Schriftenreihe:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index.
ISBN:9781400825257
1400825253
9780691090535
069109053X

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