A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the
living Dust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish
life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish
cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish
New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest
arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century. Allan Amanik
charts a remarkable reciprocity among Jewish funerary provisions
and the workings of family and communal life, tracing how financial
and family concerns in death came to equal earlier priorities
rooted in tradition and communal cohesion. At the same time, he
shows how shifting emphases in death gave average Jewish families
the ability to advocate for greater protections and entitlements
such as widows' benefits and funeral insurance. Amanik ultimately
concludes that planning for life's end helps to shape social
systems in ways that often go unrecognized.
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