TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woolf,Jeffrey R.
TI  - The fabric of religious life in medieval Ashkenaz (1000-1300): creating sacred communities 
T2  - Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval
SN  - 9789004300255
AV  - BM316 .W66 2015
U1  - 296.0944/0902 23
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill.
KW  - Ashkenazim
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Judaism
KW  - France
KW  - Hasidism, Medieval
KW  - Jews
KW  - Europe
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Germany
KW  - Italy
KW  - Jewish way of life
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Community -- 3 The Synagogue -- 4 Purity and Impurity -- 5 Martyrdom -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In The Fabric of Religious Life in Medieval Ashkenaz , Jeffrey R. Woolf presents the first integrated presentation of the ideals and beliefs that comprised the self-image and worldview of Ashkenazic Jews in the Central and High Middle Ages (900-1300). Through careful examination of a wide range of sources (legal, customal, liturgical, artistic), Woolf shows how religious practice played a dual role in creating and sustaining Jewish life in a hostile environment. They instilled these values, and recast religious traditions to reflect them. The author demonstrates how hitherto underappreciated ideals such as Purity, Sanctity, and a palpable sense of Divine In-Dwelling played a central role in Ashkenazic religiousity and merged to form the texture, or the \'Sacred Canopy,\' of their lives
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004300255
ER  -