Special Features of Jewish Laments and Mourning Rituals in Honor of the Dead in an Anti-Semitic Environment

Authors

  • Irena Avsenik Nabergoj ZRC SAZU, Institute of Cultural History, Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2019480202

Keywords:

suffering, death, mourning, consolation, Biblical laments, ancient Jewish epitaphs, mourning rituals

Abstract

This contribution discloses, by using the methods of close reading and intertextual comparison with various cultures and religions, peculiarities of Jewish laments in honour of the dead and of Jewish mourning rituals, as they are witnessed in laments of the Bible and in post-Biblical Jewish sources, in ancient Jewish epitaphs, in Jewish traditional religious mourning practices, in medieval Jewish literary traditions of commemorating martyrs and in commemorations of holocaust victims in modern Jewish poetry. It deals also with the relationship to suffering and the death of Jews, as they are witnessed in Slovenian literary folklore and in selected works of Slovenian manuscript tradition.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Anderson, Gary A. 1991. A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Audi, Robert (ur.). 2009. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 2. izd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Avsenik Nabergoj, Irena. 2016a. Izvori in tradicija literarne zvrsti vita Christi v Poljanskem rokopisu. Bogoslovni vestnik 76 (3–4): 585‒596.

Avsenik Nabergoj, Irena. 2016b. Zgodovina protijudovstva in antisemitizma v Evropi. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.

Avsenik Nabergoj, Irena. 2017a. Rokopisna tradicija literarne zvrsti planctus Mariae in Poljanski rokopis. V: Aleksander Bijelčevič (idr., ur.), Rokopisi slovenskega slovstva od srednjega veka do moderne Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 103‒110. (Obdobja; 36). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/Obdobja.36.103-110

Avsenik Nabergoj, Irena. 2017b. Marijino sočutje in žalovanje v srednjeveških meditacijah in dramatizacijah evangeljske pripovedi o pasijonu. Bogoslovni vestnik 77 (3–4): 655–669.

Babič, Saša. 2013. Estetska struktura in funkcija folklorne molitve z vidika teksta, teksture in konteksta. Studia Mythologica Slavica 16: 187–197. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/sms.v16i0.1552

Baltussen, Han. 2009. Personal Grief and Public Mourning in Plutarch's Consolation to His Wife. The American Journal of Philology 130: 67‒98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.0.0044

Bar-Levav, Avriel. 2014. Jewish Attitudes towards Death: A Society between Time, Space and Texts. V: Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt in Avriel Bar-Levav, Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities. Berlin in Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 3–15.

Bender, A. P. 1894. Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews Connected with Death Burial and Mourning. (As Illustrated by the Bible and Later Jewish Literature). The Jewish Quartely Review 6 (2): 317‒347.

Bryant, Clifton D. in Dennis L. Peck (ur.). 2009. Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Curtius, Ernst Robert. 2002 [1948]. Evropska literatura in latinski srednji vek. Ljubljana: Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura.

Einbinder, Susan L. 2002. Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France. Princeton, NJ in Oxford: Princeton University Press (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World; 8).

Fishbane, Simcha. 1989. Jewish Mourning Rites – A Process of Resocialization. Anthropologica 31 (1): 65–84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/25605529

Gamliel, Tova. 2010. She Who Morns Will Cry: Emotion and Expertise in Yemeni-Israeli Wailing. Journal of Anthropological Research 66 (4): 485–503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/jar.0521004.0066.403

Goluboff, Sascha L. 2008. Patriarchy through Lamentation in Azerbaijan. American Ethnologist 35 (1): 81–94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00007.x

Goren, Arthur Aryeh. 1994. Sacred and Secular: The Place of Public Funerals in the Immigrant Life of American Jews. Jewish History: The Robert Cohen Memorial 8 (1–2): 269–305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01915918

Grafenauer, Ivan. 1939. Zamorci in zamorske deklice v narodnih legendah. 1. »Sveta hostija onečaščena«. Dom in svet 51 (6): 343–349.

Hachlili, Rachel. 2005. Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices and Rites in the Second Temple Period. Leiden in Boston: E. J. Brill.

Homer. 1965. Iliada. Poslovenil in uvod napisal Anton Sovrè. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije.

Horowitz, Sara R. 2010. Kaddish – The Final Frontier. Studies in American Jewish Literature 29: 49–67.

Horst, Peter Willem van der. 1991. Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary Epigraphy (300 BCE–700 CE). Kampen: Kok Pharos.

Janowski, Bernd in Peter Stuhlmacher (ur.). 2004. The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources. Grand Rapids, MI in Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans.

Jelinčič Boeta, Klemen. 2009. Judje na Slovenskem v srednjem veku. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.

Kashani, Reuben. 1974. Burial: In Post-Biblical Times. V: Encyclopaedia Judaica: Volume 4. Jeruzalem: Keter, 1516–1523.

Kosofsky, Scott-Martin. 2004. The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year. New York: HarperSanFrancisco.

Kozlova, Ekaterina E. 2017. Maternal Grief in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kraemer, David. 1995. Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature. New York in Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kumer, Zmaga. 1997. Židje v slovenski ljudski pesmi. Muzikološki zbornik 33: 91−95.

Kumer, Zmaga. 1999. Zlati očenaš: Slovenski ljudski pasijon. Ljubljana: Družina.

Langer, Ruth. 1998. To Worship God Properly: Tensions Between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press.

Ma, Sheng-Mei. 1997. Mourning with the (as a) Jew: Metaphor, Ethnicity, and the Holocaust in Art Spiegelman's Maus. Studies in American Jewish Literature 16: 115‒129.

Marcus, Jacob Rader in Marc Saperstein. 2015. The Jews in Christian Europe: A Source Book, 315–1791. New York: Hebrew Union College Press; Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Novak, Vilko (ur.). 1983. Slovenske ljudske molitve. Ljubljana: Družina.

Ogrin, Matija. 2017a. Slovenska pridiga baročne dobe in redovne province: med retoričnim izročilom in redovniško karizmo. Arhivi 40 (2): 217–232.

Ogrin, Matija. 2017b. O vlogi rokopisov v dolgem prehodu iz rokopisne v tiskano knjigo v slovenski književnosti. Primerjalna književnost 40 (1): 43–58.

Ogrin, Matija. 2018. Poljanski rokopis, velika priča slovenskega pasijonskega izročila. Pasijonski doneski 13: 107–116.

Perkins, Judith. 1995. The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era. London in New York: Routledge.

Poljanski rokopis: Jezusovo življenje v sto postavah. 1799/1810. Neznani rokopisi slovenskega slovstva 17. in 18. stoletja. NRSS 23. http://ezb.ijs.si/fedora/get/nrss:nrss_ms_023/VIEW/ (25. 5. 2019).

Rosen, Philip in Nina Apfelbaum. 2002. Bearing Witness: A Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Roskies, David G. 1979. The Pogrom Poem and the Literature of Destruction. Notre Dame English Journal 11 (2): 89–113.

Roskies, David G. (ur.). 1989. The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe. Philadelphia, New York in Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society.

Roskies, David G. 2005. Bialik in the Ghettos. Prooftexts 25 (1–2): 103–120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ptx.2006.0015

Rothkoff, Aaron. 1974. Mourning: Talmudic and Medieval Periods. Encyclopaedia Judaica: Volume 12. Jeruzalem: Keter, 487–493.

SLP 3. 1992. Slovenske ljudske pesmi: Tretja knjiga: Pripovedne pesmi. Marko Terseglav (idr., ur.). Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.

SNP 1. 1895‒1898. Slovenske narodne pesmi: 1. zvezek. Karel Štrekelj (ur.). Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.

SNP 3. 1904‒1907. Slovenske narodne pesmi: 3. zvezek. Karel Štrekelj (ur.). Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.

Standhartinger, Angela. 2010. »What Women Were Accustomed to Do for the Dead Beloved by Them« (»Gospel of Peter« 12:50): Traces of Laments and Mourning Rituals in Early Easter, Passion, and Lord's Supper Traditions. Journal of Biblical Literature 129 (3): 559–574. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/25765952

Swenson, Kristin M. 2005. Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness. Waco, TE: Baylor University Press.

Šašel Kos, Marjeta. 1997. The Roman Inscriptions in the National Museum of Slovenia / Lapidarij Narodnega muzeja Slovenije. Ljubljana: Narodni muzej Slovenije.

Wahlhaus, Erlene. 2005. The Psychological Benefits of the Traditional Jewish Mourning Rituals: Have the Changes Instituted by the Progressive Movement Enhanced or Diminished Them? European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 38 (1): 95‒109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/001430005780996530

Ydit, Meir. 1972. Av, the Ninth of. Encyclopaedia Judaica: Volume 3. Jeruzalem: Keter, 936–940.

Downloads

Published

28.06.2019

How to Cite

Avsenik Nabergoj, I. (2019). Special Features of Jewish Laments and Mourning Rituals in Honor of the Dead in an Anti-Semitic Environment. Traditiones, 48(2), 19–47. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2019480202

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 2 (2019): OBREDNE PESMI MED LITURGIJO IN LJUDSKIM IZROČILOM / RITUAL SONGS BETWEEN LITURGY AND FOLK TRADITION

Section

OBREDNE PESMI MED LITURGIJO IN LJUDSKIM IZROČILOM / RITUAL SONGS BETWEEN LITURGY AND FOLK TRADITION

License

Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.

More in: Submission chapter