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Tables of Contents for Judaism in Practice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Princeton Readings in Religions
vii
Note on Transliteration and Acknowledgments
ix
Contributors
xv
Introduction
1
38
Lawrence Fine
Rituals of Daily and Festival Practice
Communal Prayer and Liturgical Poetry
39
13
Raymond P. Scheindlin
Italian Jewish Women at Prayer
52
9
Howard Tzvi Adelman
Measuring Graves and Laying Wicks
61
13
Chava Weissler
Adorning the ``Bride'' on the Eve of the Feast of Weeks
74
7
Daniel C. Matt
New Year's Day for Fruit of the Tree
81
18
Miles Krassen
Rituals of the Life Cycle
The Role of Women at Rituals of Their Infant Children
99
16
Lawrence A. Hoffman
Honey Cakes and Torah: A Jewish Boy Learns His Letters
115
16
Ivan G. Marcus
Women and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Sexual Politics of Piety
131
12
Judith R. Baskin
Life-Cycle Rituals of Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women
143
12
Renee Levine Melammed
Ritualizing Death and Dying: The Ethical Will of Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz
155
16
Avriel Bar-Levav
Torah, Learning, and Ethics
Moses Maimonides' Laws of the Study of Torah
171
15
Lawrence Kaplan
An Egyptian Woman Seeks to Rescue Her Husband from a Sufi Monastery
186
5
S. D. Goitein
A Monastic-like Setting for the Study of Torah
191
12
Ephraim Kanarfogel
Religious Practice among Italian Jewish Women
203
7
Howard Tzvi Adelman
A Mystical Fellowship in Jerusalem
210
5
Lawrence Fine
The Love of Learning among Polish Jews
215
14
Gershon David Hundert
Religious Sectarianism and Communities on the Margins
Jewish Sectarianism in the Near East: A Muslim's Account
229
8
Steven M. Wasserstrom
Travel in the Land of Israel
237
11
Lawrence Fine
Karaite Ritual
248
17
Daniel Frank
Living Judaism in Confucian Culture: Being Jewish and Being Chinese
265
16
Jonathan N. Lipman
Art and Aesthetics
Defending, Enjoying, and Regulating the Visual
281
17
Kalman P. Bland
Illustrating History and Illuminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah
298
20
Marc Michael Epstein
The Arts of Calligraphy and Composition, and the Love of Books
318
7
Lawrence Fine
Jewish Preaching in Fifteenth-Century Spain
325
16
Marc Saperstein
Magic and Mysticism
The Book of the Great Name
341
7
Michael D. Swartz
Visionary Experiences among Spanish Crypto-Jewish Women
348
5
Renee Levine Melammed
Mystical Eating and Food Practices in the Zohar
353
11
Joel Hecker
Devotional Rites in a Sufi Mode
364
11
Paul B. Fenton
Pietistic Customs from Safed
375
11
Lawrence Fine
Jewish Exorcism: Early Modern Traditions and Transformations
386
13
J. H. Chajes
Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Personal Practices of a Hasdic Master
399
14
Arthur Green
Remarkable Lives
The Life of Moses ben Maimon
413
16
Joel L. Kraemer
Dolce of Worms: The Lives and Deaths of an Exemplary Medieval Jewish Woman and Her Daughters
429
9
Judith R. Baskin
The Earliest Hebrew First-Crusade Narrative
438
15
Robert Chazan
Leon Modena's Autobiography
453
17
Mark R. Cohen
The Early Messianic Career of Shabbatai Zvi
470
13
Matt Goldish
The Life of Glikl of Hameln
483
15
Paula E. Hyman
Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov
498
15
Dan Ben-Amos
The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna
513
8
Allan Nadler
Appendix. The Jewish Holidays
521
2
Index
523