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Author Einbinder, Susan L., 1954-

Title Beautiful death : Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France / Susan L. Einbinder
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : map
Series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
Contents Introduction: the medieval poetry of Jewish martyrdom -- Faith and fury: medieval Jewish martyrological poetry and resistence to conversion -- "The fire does not burn": the emergence of a martyrological motif -- Burning Jewish books -- Wheels within wheels: literature, history, and methodology -- Une bele qedushah: Troyes 1288 -- Jonathan and his magic book: Paris 1290
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index
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Subject Hebrew literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
Martyrdom in literature.
Martyrdom -- Judaism.
Judaism -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500
Jews -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500
Jews -- Persecutions -- France, Northern
Judaism -- France, Northern -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Hebrew literature, Medieval
Jews
Jews -- Persecutions
Judaism
Martyrdom in literature
Martyrdom -- Judaism
Gedichten.
Hebreeuws.
Joden.
Martelaren.
Northern France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400825257
1400825253
9780691090535
069109053X