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When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.

When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / S...

When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.

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When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.

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Full title

When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.

Call Numbers

N296.445/ 4

Record Identifier

74Vv8r3xoB7A

MMS ID

991014226099702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

271 p. ; 24 cm.

Publication information

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.

Place of Publication

California

Date Published

c2001.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"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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Full title

When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son / Samuel C. Heilman.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-259) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2001.

Other version (online)

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N296.445/ 4

Record Identifier

74Vv8r3xoB7A

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8r3xoB7A

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ISBN

0520236785(pbk.) :

9780520219656 (cloth : alk. paper)

0520219651 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780520236783(pbk.) :

DDC

296.445

MMS ID

991014226099702626

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