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100 1 $aMarcus, Ivan G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81138114
245 10 $aRituals of childhood :$bJewish acculturation in medieval Europe /$cIvan G. Marcus.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $aix, 191 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-181) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Ritual and Medieval Jewish Cultural History --$g2.$tThe Initiation Rite --$g3.$tAncient Jewish Pedagogy --$g4.$tFood Magic and Mnemonic Gestures --$g5.$tSymbolic Readings --$g6.$tChildhood Initiations into Religious Cultures.
520 $aIn medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end.
520 8 $aThis book - Ivan Marcus's erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage - presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe.
520 8 $aMarcus traces ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman elements in the rite and then analyzes it from different perspectives, making use of narrative, legal, poetic, ethnographic, and pictorial sources, as well as firsthand accounts. He then describes contemporary medieval Christian images and initiation rites - including the eucharist and the Madonna and child - as contexts within which to understand the ceremony.
520 8 $aHe is the first to investigate how medieval Jews were aware of, drew upon, and polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages in order to affirm the truth of Judaism and to make sense of living as Jews in an intensely Christian culture.
650 0 $aJewish religious education of preschool children$zGermany$xHistory.
650 0 $aInitiation rites$xReligious aspects$xJudaism$xHistory.
650 0 $aJudaism$xHistory$yMedieval and early modern period, 425-1789.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070851
852 00 $bglx$hBM85.G4$iM37 1996