LEADER 07530nam 2201969 a 450 001 9910778222603321 005 20230914184026.0 010 $a1-282-15778-7 010 $a9786612157783 010 $a1-4008-2525-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825257 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788444 035 $a(EBL)457784 035 $a(OCoLC)436046194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125209 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10047233 035 $a(PQKB)10387961 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457784 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36145 035 $a(DE-B1597)446429 035 $a(OCoLC)979629192 035 $a(OCoLC)984688352 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825257 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457784 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312596 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215778 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788444 100 $a20011016h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeautiful death $eJewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France /$fSusan L. Einbinder 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2002. 210 4$aŠ2002 215 $a1 online resource (x, 219 pages) $cmap 225 1 $aJews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world 311 0 $a0-691-09053-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-209) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom --$tONE. Faith and Fury: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion --$tTWO. "The Fire Does Not Burn": The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif --$tTHREE. Burning Jewish Books --$tFOUR. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology --$tFIVE. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 --$tSIX. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290 --$tEpilogue --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWhen Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed. 410 0$aJews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world. 606 $aHebrew literature, Medieval$zFrance, Northern$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMartyrdom in literature 606 $aMartyrdom$xJudaism 606 $aJudaism$zFrance, Northern$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJews$zFrance, Northern$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJews$xPersecutions$zFrance, Northern 610 $aAbraham ibn Ezra. 610 $aAllusion. 610 $aApostasy. 610 $aAshkenaz. 610 $aBlood libel. 610 $aBook burning. 610 $aBook of Ezekiel. 610 $aBooks of Kings. 610 $aChristian literature. 610 $aChristianity. 610 $aConversion to Christianity. 610 $aConversion to Judaism. 610 $aCrusades. 610 $aDefection. 610 $aDesecration. 610 $aDesperation (novel). 610 $aElohim. 610 $aEmeritus. 610 $aExegesis. 610 $aEzekiel. 610 $aFirst Crusade. 610 $aGershom. 610 $aGod. 610 $aHagigah. 610 $aHagiography. 610 $aHalevi. 610 $aHarassment. 610 $aHazzan. 610 $aHebrew Bible. 610 $aHebrew language. 610 $aHeresy. 610 $aHigh Middle Ages. 610 $aHistorian. 610 $aHost desecration. 610 $aHumiliation. 610 $aIllustration. 610 $aIn Death. 610 $aIncorruptibility. 610 $aIsraelites. 610 $aJewish identity. 610 $aJewish studies. 610 $aJews. 610 $aJudaism. 610 $aKohen. 610 $aLament. 610 $aLamentations Rabbah. 610 $aLaments (Kochanowski). 610 $aLibation. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMaimonides. 610 $aMartyr. 610 $aMartyrology. 610 $aMedieval Hebrew. 610 $aMeir of Rothenburg. 610 $aMiddle Ages. 610 $aMishnah. 610 $aNahmanides. 610 $aNames of God in Judaism. 610 $aNarrative. 610 $aOld French. 610 $aPenitential. 610 $aPersecution. 610 $aPiyyut. 610 $aPoetry. 610 $aPolemic. 610 $aPrinceton University. 610 $aProse. 610 $aPsalms. 610 $aPyre. 610 $aQuatrain. 610 $aRabbi. 610 $aRabbinic literature. 610 $aRashbam. 610 $aRashi. 610 $aRelic. 610 $aReligious text. 610 $aResponsa. 610 $aRighteousness. 610 $aSecond Crusade. 610 $aSefer (Hebrew). 610 $aSefer Hasidim. 610 $aSimhah. 610 $aSoloveitchik. 610 $aStanza. 610 $aSuffering. 610 $aSuggestion. 610 $aTalmud. 610 $aTefillin. 610 $aTen Martyrs. 610 $aThe Other Hand. 610 $aThe Song of Roland. 610 $aTorah scroll. 610 $aTorah. 610 $aTreatise. 610 $aTroyes. 610 $aV. 610 $aWriter. 610 $aWriting. 610 $aYechiel of Paris. 610 $aYom Tov of Joigny. 615 0$aHebrew literature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMartyrdom in literature. 615 0$aMartyrdom$xJudaism. 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xPersecutions 676 $a892.4/0938296 700 $aEinbinder$b Susan L.$f1954-$01567735 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778222603321 996 $aBeautiful death$93839349 997 $aUNINA