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Susan L. Einbinder. Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. x, 219 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2005

Shmuel Shepkaru
Shmuel Shepkaru
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The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
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Can medieval Jewish poetry teach us history? Asked differently, can scholars draw on medieval poetry (piyyutim) to reconstruct historical events? In Beautiful Death, Einbinder narrows down this matter to the case of Ashkenazic martyrological poetry. To answer this question, Einbinder has analyzed over seventy Hebrew poems from northern France, England, and Germany; they span the period following the First Crusade (1096), ending with the Rindfleisch massacres of 1298 in Germany and King Philip IV's expulsion of the French Jews in 1306.

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Medieval
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AJS Review , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 2004 , pp. 371 - 373
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© 2004 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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