Beautiful Death
Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
by Susan L. Einbinder
"When 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Martyrdom in literature, Judaism, Jews, Martyrdom, History and criticism, Persecutions, History, Medieval Hebrew literature, Hebrew literature, Jews, france, Jews, persecutions, Hebrew literature, medieval--history and criticism, Hebrew literature, medieval--france, northern--history and criticism, Martyrdom--judaism, Judaism--history, Judaism--france, northern--history--to 1500, Jews--history, Jews--france, northern--history--to 1500, Jews--persecutions, Jews--persecutions--france, northern, Pj5023 .e46 2002, 000107442, 892.4/0938296, Jewish, Social sciences -> history -> jewish historyShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
July 1, 2002, Princeton University Press
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Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France
2002, Princeton University Press
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"THE MEDIEVAL literature of Jewish martyrdom was born not long after the First Crusade attacks on Jewish communities along the Rhine-that is, not long after the deaths of the men, women, and children who became the subjects of its chronicles, lists, and laments."
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