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Yizkor : memory and memorializing in Judaism

"May God remember" was published by Jewish Lights Publishing in 2013 - Woodstock, Vermont, it has 283 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: May God remember
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 283
  • Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
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  • Publish Location: Woodstock, Vermont

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  • Pagination: xii, 283 pages

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"May God remember" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Theology and practice
  • 2- Historical insights
  • 3- The liturgy
  • 4- Interpretations and reflections.
  • 5- Introduction:
  • 6- Yizkor and memorial in Jewish trdition -- Lawrence A. Hoffman
  • 7- Hashkavah: memorializing the dead in Sephardi practice -- Yoram Bitton
  • 8- Remembering the dead: by us and by God -- Lawrence A. Hoffman
  • 9- Remembering the dead as halakhic peril -- Daniel Landes
  • 10- Memorializing the Shoah -- Dalia Marx
  • 11- Sites and subjects: memory in Israeli culture -- Wendy Zierler
  • 12- Would Jeremiah have recited Yizkor? Yizkor and the Bible -- Marc Zvi Brettler
  • 13- Hazkarat n'shamot ("memorial of souls"): how it all began -- Solomon B. Freehof
  • 14- Kaddish and memorial services -- Jakob J. Petuchowski
  • 15- Yizkor: a microcosm of liturgical interconnectivity -- Eric L. Friedland
  • 16- "Service for the souls": the origin of modern memorial services, 1819 to 1938 -- Annette M. Boeckler
  • 17- The traditional Yizkor service -- translation and commentary by Joel M. Hoffman
  • 18- What happens when we die: intimations of immortality -- Lawrence A. Englander
  • 19- The age of amusement -- Edward Feinstein
  • 20- Remembering through forgetting: Yizkor as unshared experience -- Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
  • 21- Hard to plan the day -- Edwin Goldberg
  • 22- Why art thou cast down? -- Andrew Goldstein
  • 23- Where do people go when they die? -- Joel M. Hoffman
  • 24- Remembering Abraham Geiger -- Walter Homolka
  • 25- An ongoing conversation with empty chairs -- Delphine Horvilleur
  • 26- Ode to mortality -- Karyn D. Kedar
  • 27- What is Yizkor for? -- Catherine Madsen
  • 28- "Empty-handed before Adonai" -- Jonathan Magonet
  • 29- The hippo of recollection stirring in the muddy waters of the mind -- Charles H. Middleburgh
  • 30- Re-membering: Yizkor and the dynamics of death -- Jay Henry Moses
  • 31- Prayer for the dead; promise by the living -- Aaron D. Panken
  • 32- When the golden shields are gone -- Jack Riemer
  • 33- A soul-ar eclipse -- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
  • 34- To tear and to sew -- David Stern
  • 35- Remembering our past in service to our future -- David A. Teutsch
  • 36- "For I pledge tzʼdakah on her behalf" -- Margaret Moers Wenig
  • 37- A time to re-member -- Ron Wolfson
  • 38- Remembering our summers in the autumns of our years -- Daniel G. Zemel
  • 39- Appendix A. Full text of Hashkavah, the Sephardi memorial prayer, with translation --
  • 40- Appendix B. El Malei Rachamim: a chronicle from the Chmielnicki Pogroms -- translation and commentary by Joel M. Hoffman
  • 41- Appendix C. El Malei Rachamim: music of 1888 -- composition by Eduard Birnbaum.

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