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22 Jan

Death & Community: Jewish Burial Societies

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JL;DR SUMMARY Jewish burial societies, known as Hevra Kadisha, play a critical role in observing traditional Jewish rites related to death, ensuring the deceased are respectfully prepared and comfort is provided to mourners. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Community Support  Shiva  Jewish Mourning Practices  Death Acceptance  Tahara  Hevra Kadisha  Jewish Burial Societies  Shemira  Inclusion In Judaism  Hesped 

Places mentioned

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"In Amsterdam and in the Ottoman Empire, in Russia, they're elsewhere as well, especially in small and upstart Jewish communities."
Turkey
"In Amsterdam and in the Ottoman Empire, in Russia, they're elsewhere as well, especially in small and upstart Jewish communities."
Russian Federation
"In Amsterdam and in the Ottoman Empire, in Russia, they're elsewhere as well, especially in small and upstart Jewish communities."
Detroit, Michigan, United States
"Howard Lupovich is a professor of history and director of the Kohn Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University."
Evanston, Illinois, United States
"Howard Lupovich is a professor of history and director of the Kohn Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University."
Jerusalem, New York, United States
"He studies sociology and Jewish studies at Queens College in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In his book, When a Jew Dies, The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son, he writes about volunteering with a chavra kadisha in suburban New York and in Jerusalem, where he now lives."
New York, United States
"He studies sociology and Jewish studies at Queens College in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In his book, When a Jew Dies, The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son, he writes about volunteering with a chavra kadisha in suburban New York and in Jerusalem, where he now lives."
Jerusalem, Israel
"He studies sociology and Jewish studies at Queens College in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In his book, When a Jew Dies, The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son, he writes about volunteering with a chavra kadisha in suburban New York and in Jerusalem, where he now lives."
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
"Cornelia Aust is a historian at the Solomon Ludwig Steinhain Institute of German Jewish Studies in Essen, Germany."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"And in central Europe, the first one was founded in Prague in 1564."
Israel
"Hevra Kaddishah largely disappeared in Eastern and Central Europe after the Holocaust, but they continue to function and still do in the diaspora, including in the US, Canada, and in Israel."
Canada
"Hevra Kaddishah largely disappeared in Eastern and Central Europe after the Holocaust, but they continue to function and still do in the diaspora, including in the US, Canada, and in Israel."

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