When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.
When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.
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N296.445/ 4
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English
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271 p. ; 24 cm.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.
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California
Date Published
c2001.
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"Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses the boundary between the academic and the religious,...
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When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.
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The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-259) and index.
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c2001.
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N296.445/ 4
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74Vv8r3xoB7A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8r3xoB7A
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0520236785(pbk.) :
9780520219656 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520219651 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520236783(pbk.) :
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296.445
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991014226099702626