When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son by Samuel C. Heilman

When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son

Samuel C. Heilman

271 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction religion reflective medium-paced
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Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own fa...

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