TY - JOUR AU - Avsenik Nabergoj, Irena PY - 2019/06/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Special Features of Jewish Laments and Mourning Rituals in Honor of the Dead in an Anti-Semitic Environment JF - Traditiones JA - Traditiones VL - 48 IS - 2 SE - OBREDNE PESMI MED LITURGIJO IN LJUDSKIM IZROČILOM / RITUAL SONGS BETWEEN LITURGY AND FOLK TRADITION DO - 10.3986/Traditio2019480202 UR - https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/7727 SP - 19-47 AB - <p><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic; mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic; mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">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 <em>Bible</em> 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.</span></span></p> ER -