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portada Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in new York (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781479800803

Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in new York (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History)

Allan Amanik (Author) · New York Univ Pr · Hardcover

Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in new York (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History) - Allan Amanik

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Synopsis "Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in new York (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History)"

A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the livingDust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century.Allan Amanik charts a remarkable reciprocity among Jewish funerary provisions and the workings of family and communal life, tracing how financial and family concerns in death came to equal earlier priorities rooted in tradition and communal cohesion. At the same time, he shows how shifting emphases in death gave average Jewish families the ability to advocate for greater protections and entitlements such as widows’ benefits and funeral insurance. Amanik ultimately concludes that planning for life’s end helps to shape social systems in ways that often go unrecognized.

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