May God remember = Yizkor : memory and memorializing in Judaism / edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffman, Lawrence A., 1942- editor.

Series:

Prayers of awe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hazkarat neshamot.

Kaddish.

Judaism--Liturgy.

Judaism.

Jewish mourning customs.

Physical Description:

xii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Yizkor

Memory and memorializing in Judaism

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, Vermont : Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013.

Summary:

Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, over thirty contributors-men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations-examine the history and ideas behind Yizkor, the Jewish memorial service, and this fascinating chapter in Jewish piety. Featuring the traditional prayers-provided in the original Hebrew and a new and annotated translation-this fourth volume in the Prayers of Awe series explores the profound theological questions at the core of this serviced our own humanity: What happens to us after we, die? Is there, really an afterlife? Does our fate after death depend on the goodness with which we have pursued our earthly life? And more. A multi-volume series designed to explore the High Holy Day liturgy and enrich the praying experience for everyone-whether experienced worshipers or guests who encounter Jewish prayer for the very first time. Book jacket.

Contents:

Theology and practice

Historical insights

The liturgy

Interpretations and reflections.

Introduction: Yizkor and memorial in Jewish trdition / Lawrence A. Hoffman

Hashkavah: memorializing the dead in Sephardi practice / Yoram Bitton

Remembering the dead: by us and by God / Lawrence A. Hoffman

Remembering the dead as halakhic peril / Daniel Landes

Memorializing the Shoah / Dalia Marx

Sites and subjects: memory in Israeli culture / Wendy Zierler

Would Jeremiah have recited Yizkor? Yizkor and the Bible / Marc Zvi Brettler

Hazkarat n'shamot ("memorial of souls"): how it all began / Solomon B. Freehof

Kaddish and memorial services / Jakob J. Petuchowski

Yizkor: a microcosm of liturgical interconnectivity / Eric L. Friedland

"Service for the souls": the origin of modern memorial services, 1819 to 1938 / Annette M. Boeckler

The traditional Yizkor service / translation and commentary by Joel M. Hoffman

What happens when we die: intimations of immortality / Lawrence A. Englander

The age of amusement / Edward Feinstein

Remembering through forgetting: Yizkor as unshared experience / Shoshana Boyd Gelfand

Hard to plan the day / Edwin Goldberg

Why art thou cast down? / Andrew Goldstein

Where do people go when they die? / Joel M. Hoffman

Remembering Abraham Geiger / Walter Homolka

An ongoing conversation with empty chairs / Delphine Horvilleur

Ode to mortality / Karyn D. Kedar

What is Yizkor for? / Catherine Madsen

"Empty-handed before Adonai" / Jonathan Magonet

The hippo of recollection stirring in the muddy waters of the mind / Charles H. Middleburgh

Re-membering: Yizkor and the dynamics of death / Jay Henry Moses

Prayer for the dead; promise by the living / Aaron D. Panken

When the golden shields are gone / Jack Riemer

A soul-ar eclipse / Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

To tear and to sew / David Stern

Remembering our past in service to our future / David A. Teutsch

"For I pledge tzʼdakah on her behalf" / Margaret Moers Wenig

A time to re-member / Ron Wolfson

Remembering our summers in the autumns of our years / Daniel G. Zemel

Appendix A. Full text of Hashkavah, the Sephardi memorial prayer, with translation

Appendix B. El Malei Rachamim: a chronicle from the Chmielnicki Pogroms / translation and commentary by Joel M. Hoffman

Appendix C. El Malei Rachamim: music of 1888 / composition by Eduard Birnbaum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1580236898

OCLC:

849198513

Publisher Number:

99955865429