Research Catalog

Title

May God remember = Yizkor : memory and memorializing in Judaism / edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD.

Publication

Woodstock, Vermont : Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hoffman, Lawrence A., 1942-

Description

xii, 283 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Prayers of awe

Uniform Title

• ‏תפלות. חולים ומתים
• Prayers of awe.

Alternative Title

• Yizkor
• Memory and memorializing in Judaism

Subject

• Hazkarat neshamot
• Kaddish
• Judaism > Liturgy
• Jewish mourning customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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

Call Number

*PKT 14-423

ISBN

• 9781580236898
• 1580236898

LCCN

2013022920

OCLC

849198513

Title

May God remember = Yizkor : memory and memorializing in Judaism / edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD.

Publisher

Woodstock, Vermont : Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013.

Edition

Hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Prayers of awe

Prayers of awe.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Hoffman, Lawrence A., 1942- editor.

Research Call Number

*PKT 14-423