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Crossing the Jabbok : illness and death in Ashkenazi Judaism in sixteenth through ninteenth-century Prague /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldberg, Sylvie Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
Series:Contraversions ; 3.
Subjects:
Jewish mourning customs.
Death > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Judaism > Czech Republic > Prague > History.
Jews > Czech Republic > Prague > Social life and customs.
Ḥevra kaddisha > Czech Republic > Prague.
Description
Physical Description:xvii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
ISBN:0520081498 (alk. paper)