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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present (Paperback)
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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present (Paperback)
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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in
geographical scope exploring Jewish women's lives in what is now
Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa,
and North America. Editors Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn
Winer focus the volume on reconstructing the experiences of
ordinary women and situating those of the extraordinary and famous
within the gender systems of their times and places. The twenty-one
contributors analyze the history of Jewish women in the light of
gender as religious, cultural, and social construct. They apply new
methodologies in approaching rabbinic sources, prescriptive
literature, and musar (ethics), interrogating them about female
roles in the biblical and rabbinic imaginations, and in relation to
women's restrictions and quotidian actions on the ground. They
explore Jewish's women experiences of persecution, displacement,
immigration, integration, and social mobility from the medieval age
through the nineteenth century. And for the modern era, this volume
assesses women's spiritual developments; how they experienced
changes in religious and political societies, both Jewish and
non-Jewish; the history of women in the Holocaust, their struggle
through persecution and deportation; women's everyday concerns,
Jewish lesbian activism, and the spiritual sphere in the
contemporary era. Contributors reinterpret rabbinical responsa
through new lenses and study a plethora of unpublished and
previously unknown archival sources, such as community ordinances
and court records, alongside autobiographies, letters, poetry,
narrative prose, devotional objects, the built environment,
illuminated manuscripts, and early printed books. 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 also 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.
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