TY  - BOOK
AU  - Einbinder,Susan L.
TI  - Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France 
T2  - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
SN  - 9780691090535
U1  - 892.409892.4120938296 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Hebrew literature, Medieval
KW  - France, Northern
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Persecutions
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Literature
KW  - Martyrdom in literature
KW  - Martyrdom
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abraham ibn Ezra
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Apostasy
KW  - Ashkenaz
KW  - Blood libel
KW  - Book burning
KW  - Book of Ezekiel
KW  - Books of Kings
KW  - Christian literature
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Conversion to Christianity
KW  - Conversion to Judaism
KW  - Crusades
KW  - Defection
KW  - Desecration
KW  - Desperation (novel)
KW  - Elohim
KW  - Emeritus
KW  - Exegesis
KW  - Ezekiel
KW  - First Crusade
KW  - Gershom
KW  - God
KW  - Hagigah
KW  - Hagiography
KW  - Halevi
KW  - Harassment
KW  - Hazzan
KW  - Hebrew Bible
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Heresy
KW  - High Middle Ages
KW  - Historian
KW  - Host desecration
KW  - Humiliation
KW  - Illustration
KW  - In Death
KW  - Incorruptibility
KW  - Israelites
KW  - Jewish identity
KW  - Jewish studies
KW  - Kohen
KW  - Lament
KW  - Lamentations Rabbah
KW  - Laments (Kochanowski)
KW  - Libation
KW  - Maimonides
KW  - Martyr
KW  - Martyrology
KW  - Medieval Hebrew
KW  - Meir of Rothenburg
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Mishnah
KW  - Nahmanides
KW  - Names of God in Judaism
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Old French
KW  - Penitential
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Piyyut
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Polemic
KW  - Princeton University
KW  - Prose
KW  - Psalms
KW  - Pyre
KW  - Quatrain
KW  - Rabbi
KW  - Rabbinic literature
KW  - Rashbam
KW  - Rashi
KW  - Relic
KW  - Religious text
KW  - Responsa
KW  - Righteousness
KW  - Second Crusade
KW  - Sefer (Hebrew)
KW  - Sefer Hasidim
KW  - Simhah
KW  - Soloveitchik
KW  - Stanza
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Talmud
KW  - Tefillin
KW  - Ten Martyrs
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Song of Roland
KW  - Torah scroll
KW  - Torah
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Troyes
KW  - V
KW  - Writer
KW  - Writing
KW  - Yechiel of Paris
KW  - Yom Tov of Joigny
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom --; ONE. Faith and Fury: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion --; TWO. “The Fire Does Not Burn”: The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif --; THREE. Burning Jewish Books --; FOUR. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology --; FIVE. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 --; SIX. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290 --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825257
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400825257
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