Jewish Women in the Medieval World
Title | Jewish Women in the Medieval World PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Ifft Decker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2022-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000586405 |
Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women. The volume blends current scholarship with evidence drawn from primary sources, originally written in languages including Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic, to introduce both the state of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Jewish communities, and the ways in which Jewish women experienced family, love, sex, work, faith, and crisis in the medieval past. From the well-known Dolce of Worms to the less famed Bonadona, widow of Astrug Caravida of Girona, to the many nameless women referred to in medieval texts, Jewish Women tells the stories of individual women alongside discussions of wider trends in different parts of the medieval world. Even through texts written about women by men, the intelligence, courage, and perseverance of medieval Jewish women become clear to modern readers. With the inclusion of a Chronology, Who’s Who, Documents section, and Glossary, this study is an essential resource for students and other readers interested in both Jewish history and women’s history.
Pious and Rebellious
Title | Pious and Rebellious PDF eBook |
Author | Avraham Grossman |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2012-09-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611683947 |
The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.
Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
Title | Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Simha Goldin |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2020-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526148277 |
Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years. Looking at original Hebrew sources to conduct a social analysis, he takes us from the middle of the tenth century until the middle of the second half of the fourteenth century, when the Christian population had expelled the Jews from almost all of the places they were living. Particularly fascinating are the attitudes towards women, as well as their changes in social status. By examining the factors involved in these issues, including views of the leadership, economic influences, internal power politics and gender struggles, Goldin's book provides a greater understanding of the functioning of these communities. This volume will be of great interest to historians of medieval Europe, gender and religion.
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Title | Jewish Women in Medieval Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Dickstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN |
Mothers and Children
Title | Mothers and Children PDF eBook |
Author | Elisheva Baumgarten |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2007-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691130299 |
This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life during the period of childhood from birth to the beginning of formal education at age seven. Illustrating the importance of understanding Jewish practice in the context of Christian society and recognizing the shared foundations in both societies, Baumgarten's examination of Jewish and Christian practices and attitudes is explicitly comparative. Her analysis is also wideranging, covering nearly every aspect of home life and childrearing, including pregnancy, midwifery, birth and initiation rituals, nursing, sterility, infanticide, remarriage, attitudes toward mothers and fathers, gender hierarchies, divorce, widowhood, early education, and the place of children in the home, synagogue, and community. A richly detailed and deeply researched contribution to our understanding of the relationship between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors, Mothers and Children provides a key analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.
Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
Title | Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Lynn Winer |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 687 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814346324 |
This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place.
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Title | Jewish Women in Medieval Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Small |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Jewish women |
ISBN |