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When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son (1st Edition) by Samuel C. Heilman Paperback, 271 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-520-23678-5 / 0520236785 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23678-3 / 9780520236783 Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a moving chronicle of the loss of his own father. This unique narrative crosses and recrosses the |