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Many Pious Women - Edition and Translation (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Many Pious Women - Edition and Translation (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Studia Judaica
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This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether
women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It
details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of
Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of
biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women
topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon
myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female
figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for
generosity and respect for their wives' piety. Whether women living
in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging
since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic
phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised
with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These
topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with
extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th-century manuscript
in Western Yiddish (Judeo-German) written in Italy. The text will
also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists
of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance
scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now
available for the very first time in the original text with an
English translation.
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