Mothers and Children (eBook)

Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe

Elisheva Baumgarten (Autor)

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2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4926-0 (ISBN)

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Elisheva Baumgarten is Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
• Reihe/Serie: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
• Zusatzinfo: 9 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Amulet • asher • Baal • Bible • Breastfeeding • breast milk • burial • celibacy • Center for Advanced Judaic Studies • Child Abandonment • Childbirth • child care • Christian • Christian culture • Christianity • Christianity and Judaism • Churching of women • cruelty • dinah • Early Modern Europe • Elijah • Exclusion • Fasting • fertility • Festival • fornication • Frau Holle • Gender Role • Gender Studies • Grief • Halakha • Hebrew University of Jerusalem • High Middle Ages • horowitz • Household • Illustration • Incest • Indication (medicine) • Infant • infanticide • Infertility • Jewish Christian • Jewish History • Jewish Studies • Jews • Judaism • Ketubah • Lactation • Legitimacy (family law) • Literature • Lying-in • Mary Douglas • meal • Medieval Literature • Middle Ages • Midrash • midwife • Midwifery • Minyan • Mishnah • mitzvah • Mohel • mother • Mourning • Neglect • Niddah • Nuclear family • parent • parenting • Penitential • Persecution • Purim • R. • Rabbi • Rashi • Religion • Religious education • Remarriage • Responsa • Rite • Sefer (Hebrew) • Siddur • Sotah (Talmud) • spouse • sudden infant death syndrome • Suggestion • synod • Talmud • Tefillin • Theology • The Other Hand • Tosefta • two women • Wedding • Wet nurse • widow • Wimpel • women in Judaism • Writing • Yevamot
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4926-8 / 1400849268
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4926-0 / 9781400849260