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Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination - Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 5 (Paperback)
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Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination - Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 5 (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Cultural Studies, 5
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In an effort to disentangle motherhood from idealized notions of
the Jewish family, Motherhood in the Jewish Cultural Imagination
presents new perspectives on Jewish mothers by examining them in an
array of time periods and social, religious, literary and
historical contexts. This collection of articles also grants
mothers a more prominent analytical place in the narration of
Jewishness by exploring the ways that Jews have used motherhood to
construct and sustain Jewish culture. Each contribution exposes the
complexities of the place that mothers occupy in our understanding
of Jewish culture and identity. Utilizing methodologies from
literature, folklore, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and
religion, the essays in this volume locate mothers, motherhood, and
mothering in a societal context organized by gender and show how
these images interact with, support, and contest prevailing gender
belief systems. The book include examinations of childless women
warriors of the Bible; childrearing and custodial care in ancient
Israel; analyses of the power of God in relationship to the power
of mothers in rabbinic literature; depictions of pregnant mothers;
descriptions of rabbinic mothers in mourning; images of motherhood
in the Zohar; constructions of mothers in medieval piyut; analyses
of medieval stories about mothers; perspectives on biblical mothers
in modern Jewish literature; mothers in the Hebrew revival
movement; mothers in Jewish women's prayer books; mothers in Jewish
children's literature; Ottoman Jewish mothers; Afghani Jewish
mothers; mothers in Israeli film; and the impact of mothering on
American Jewish women activists.
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