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Title

Jewish insights on death and mourning / edited with introductions by Jack Riemer ; foreword by Sherwin B. Nuland.

Publication

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Riemer, Jack.
• Nuland, Sherwin B.

Description

xxiii, 374 p.; 20 cm.

Uniform Title

Wrestling with the angel.

Subject

• Death > Judaism
• Bereavement > Judaism
• Jewish mourning customs
• Consolation (Judaism)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. -- Introduction: Jewish Insights on Death / Jack Riemer -- What I Have Learned from Illness -- To Wake Up in the Hospital Early in the Morning / Rachel -- Coronary Connections: From a Hospital, Some Secrets of the Heart Revealed / Harold M. Schulweis -- A Wake-up Call / Lawrence Kushner -- In Praise of Denial / Chava Freud -- A Small Miracle Happened Here / Rex D. Perlmeter -- Charlie and the Angel of Death / Marcia Moskowitz -- When Death Arrives -- Like Removing a Hair from Milk -- Rabbi Salanter's Last Night / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Prelude / Abba Kovner -- The Power of Music at the End / Jeff Friedman -- Should We Tell the Patient the Truth? / Samuel Klagsbrun -- Let Them Know What You Want / Marshall Meyer -- The Traditional Vidui -- Kayla's Prayer / Lawrence Troster -- Saying Goodbye / Steven Saltzman -- Letting Go / Janet Roth Krupnick -- A Prayer for Health-Care Providers to Offer When a Patient Dies / Nancy Flam -- Hevra Kadisha: The Holy Society -- A Sacred Duty -- The Burial Society / Daniel E. Troy -- How Tradition Brought One Community to Life / Margaret Holub -- Bubby's Last Gift / Debbie Friedman -- The Burial -- What Rabban Gamliel Did -- The Funeral of Franz Josef / Hayim Greenberg -- Suggestions to Those Who Plan My Funeral / David Vorspan -- A Rabbi's Ethical Will / Stanley J. Garfein -- No Burden Too Heavy / Marcie Hershman -- Keri'ah: The Tearing of the Garment / Joseph Ozarowski -- Why Bury? / Elie Spitz -- How We Bury / Ron Wolfson.
• Why No Viewing / Harold M. Schulweis -- Why in Tachrichim? / Philip Roth -- Why Stones Instead of Flowers? / David J. Wolpe -- Ha-Makom Yenahem: The Place Gives Comfort / Elli Wohlgelernter -- Shivah -- The First Meal / Shulhan Arukh -- The Therapeutic Function of Shivah / Joyce Slochower -- Who's the Host? Who's the Guest? / Bernard Lipnick -- The Art of Making a Shivah Call / Ron Wolfson -- The Shivah Minyan / Bradley Shavit Artson -- Covering Mirrors / Lawrence Kushner -- Why Psalm 49? / Herbert J. Levine -- Knitting Up the Tear / Alisa Rubin Kurshan -- Kaddish -- When Death Comes / Ruth Brin -- A Commentary on the Kaddish / Bernard Lipnick -- Going to Shul / Milton Himmelfarb -- A Year of Grieving, A Year of Growing / Shamai Kanter -- Saying Kaddish: The Making of a "Regular," / Marian Henriquez Neudel -- The Year and After -- The Law Sets the Limits / Shulhan Arukh -- The Five Stages of Grief / Linda Pastan -- Shloshim: The First Thirty Days After Burial / Alan Kay -- A Way to Mark Shloshim / Arthur Gross Schaefer -- Yizkor: The Unending Conversation / Barry Freundel -- I Am Older Now: A Yahrzeit Candle Lit at Home / Harold M. Schulweis -- After the Year, What? / Arlene Rossen Cardozo -- Diary of a Young Widow: A Work in Progress / Gail Katz -- In Many Houses -- Name / Nessa Rapoport -- Is Euthanasia Permitted? -- Laws Concerning One in a Dying Condition -- Rabbi Yehudah's Handmaiden -- The Maggid Rediscovers Music -- I Want a Choice / Joseph Levine -- Final Entrance / Sharon S. Epstein.
• Long-Term Dignity / Yaffe Ganz -- On Choosing the Hour of Our Death / Yoel H. Kahn -- Death with Dignity vs. Euthanasia / Leon R. Kass -- Not Through Yet / Rami M. Shapiro -- How Shall We Mourn the Stillborn? -- A Yizkor Prayer for Stillborn and Infant Deaths / Ira F. Stone -- I Lost a Child But Did Not Mourn Her / Ron Wolfson -- Neonatal Death / Susan Knightly -- Baby Brother's Gone to Heaven / Anne-Lynne Keplar -- Three Responses to Miscarriage / Debra Reed Blank, Amy Eilberg, Marvin Goodman -- Faith Learns to Fill a Need / Barry D. Cytron -- How Does One Survive the Loss of Children? -- The Story of Rabbi Meir and Beruriah / Midrash -- Plutarch to His Wife After the Loss of Their Child -- Not on Merit, But on Mazal -- We Will Get Better, We Must Get Better / Rookie Billet -- On Being the Kaddish / Patricia Z. Barry -- Firepower in Mitzvot / Agnes G. Herman -- Do We Believe in an Afterlife? -- In the World-to-Come / Maimonides -- The Birth / Y. M. Tuckachinsky -- The Ship / David (Mickey) Marcus -- Is There Life After Death? / Blu Greenberg -- Permission to Believe / Marc Gellman -- The Here and the Hereafter / Dow Marmur -- The Fate of the Soul / Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi -- Love As Strong As Death / Bonny V. Fetterman -- Where Does It End? / Ben Zion Bokser -- What Do We Need Death For? / Jack Riemer.

ISBN

• 0815607334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780815607335 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002020860

OCLC

• 49225561
• SCSB-11030671

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library