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- catalog abstract ""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. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12557350.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-209) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom -- 1. Faith and Fun: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion -- 2. "The Fire Does Not Burn": The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif -- 3. Burning Jewish Books -- 4. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology -- 5. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 -- 6. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290.".
- catalog extent "x, 219 p. :".
- catalog identifier "069109053X".
- catalog isPartOf "Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France, Northern".
- catalog spatial "France, Northern.".
- catalog subject "892.4/0938296 21".
- catalog subject "Hebrew literature, Medieval France, Northern History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Jews France, Northern History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Jews Persecutions France, Northern.".
- catalog subject "Judaism France, Northern History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Martyrdom Judaism.".
- catalog subject "Martyrdom in literature.".
- catalog subject "PJ5023 .E46 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom -- 1. Faith and Fun: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion -- 2. "The Fire Does Not Burn": The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif -- 3. Burning Jewish Books -- 4. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology -- 5. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 -- 6. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290.".
- catalog title "Beautiful death : Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France / Susan Einbinder.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".