"Heilman has an unusually keen sense of perception and ability to put everything into an almost universal, social scientific perspective while, at the same time, retaining his personal ties, thought and feelings. As in his previous work, he here examines something that almost every traditional Jew is familiar with, and gives it new perspectives and new meaning. "When a Jew Dies includes significant discussion of prevalent customs and the Jewish bases for them. The author's particularistic-universalistic synthesis as well as his deeply-rooted, personal-scholarly synthesis set this book apart from all others."--Chaim I. Waxman, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and author of "America's Jews inTransition
"Heilman offers a unique synthesis of historical scholarship and ethnographic description in this rich account of the complex processes by which Judaism brings the dying to the end of life and the mourning to the end of grief and a return to life. This is, as far as I know, the only study combining the legal-historical, social-historical, and ethnographic perspectives in a single volume. It offers a remarkable glimpse of how one sector of contemporary Jewry confronts the reality of death and transfigures it."--Martin S. Jaffee, author of "Torah in the Mouth
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"Heilman has an unusually keen sense of perception and ability to put everything into an almost universal, social scientific perspective while, at the same time, retaining his personal ties, thought and feelings. As in his previous work, he here examines something that almost every traditional Jew is familiar with, and gives it new perspectives and new meaning. "When a Jew Dies includes significant discussion of prevalent customs and the Jewish bases for them. The author's particularistic-universalistic synthesis as well as his deeply-rooted, personal-scholarly synthesis set this book apart from all others."--Chaim I. Waxman, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and author of "America's Jews inTransition
"Heilman offers a unique synthesis of historical scholarship and ethnographic description in this rich account of the complex processes by which Judaism brings the dying to the end of life and the mourning to the end of grief and a return to life. This is, as far as I know, the only study combining the legal-historical, social-historical, and ethnographic perspectives in a single volume. It offers a remarkable glimpse of how one sector of contemporary Jewry confronts the reality of death and transfigures it."--Martin S. Jaffee, author of "Torah in the Mouth
Imprint | University of California Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | November 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | November 2002 |
Authors | Samuel C. Heilman |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 271 |
Edition | Revised ed. |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-23678-3 |
Barcode | 9780520236783 |
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LSN | 0-520-23678-5 |