Pilgrimage and the Jews/
David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson.
- Westport, Conn : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
- xvi, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-302) and index.
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.
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Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages--History. Jewish shrines.