Pilgrimage and the Jews / David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson

Publication | Library Call Number: BM729.P45 G58 2005

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Gitlitz, David M. (David Martin)
Published: Westport, Conn : Praeger Publishers, 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents

Physical Description: xvi, 312 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: 1. Jewish pilgrims?
2. Beginnings : converging on Jerusalem
3. Jerusalem, the state cult, and the three harvest pilgrimages
4. Pilgrimage in the early diasporas
5. Life on the pilgrimage road
6. Oh, Zion : Jerusalem in the center
7. Jewish saints be praised!
8. The cult of the Rebbe : Hasidic pilgrimage
9. Praying at the tzadiq's tomb : Sephardic pilgrimage
10. The shrines of the Holocaust
11. The shrines of nationhood
12. Israel as a shrine for the diaspora
13. Roots pilgrimage
14. Shrine wars.
Other Authors/Editors: Davidson, Linda Kay.
ISBN: 0275987639
9780275987633 (alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages--History.
Jewish shrines.
Jerusalem in Judaism.
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