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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. First American Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); mustard yellow paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii,303,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial wear to extremities. "...an ambitious study of the views of sickness and death among Ashkenazki Jews from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. This is one of the first works to apply the methods of the history of mentalities to a topic in Jewish cultural studies" (from front flap).