
Published online:
24 August 2023
Published in print:
17 November 2023
Online ISBN:
9780197689189
Print ISBN:
9780197689141
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Necrophilia? Necrophilia?
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PTSD and Gallows Humor PTSD and Gallows Humor
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Fun, Miracles, Sex, and Scandals Fun, Miracles, Sex, and Scandals
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Pious Masculinity Pious Masculinity
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Violent Group Violent Group
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Selection and Initiation Selection and Initiation
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Collective Profile, Hasidic Hegemony Collective Profile, Hasidic Hegemony
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Individual Profiles Individual Profiles
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Bentzi Bentzi
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Meshi Meshi
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Rabbi Roje Rabbi Roje
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Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl
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An Assemblage of Randomly Sampled Characters An Assemblage of Randomly Sampled Characters
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Chapter
3 Culture and Personality of the Specialists in Horrific Death
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Pages
66–110
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Published:August 2023
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Aran, Gideon, 'Culture and Personality of the Specialists in Horrific Death', The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism (New York , 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Aug. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689141.003.0003, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 3 relates to the distinctive ethos of ZAKA and to the characteristic personality, biography, and habitus of its members. This chapter acquaints the readers with the peculiar rites and folklore of ZAKA’s volunteers along with their typical informal norms of behavior, including a reference to some aspects of which that are often regarded bizarre or deplorable.
Keywords:
Necrophilia, Hasidim, violence, masculinity, scandals, socialization, uniqueness, Meshi-Zahav
Subject
Religious Studies
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Oxford Scholarship Online
The Cult of Dismembered Limbs. Gideon Aran, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197689141.003.0003
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