Mothers and Children
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Author_Elisheva Baumgarten
Baal
Breast milk
Burial
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Celibacy
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Child care
Childbirth
Christian
Christian culture
Christianity
Christianity and Judaism
Churching of women
Dinah
Elijah
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Exclusion
Fasting
Gender role
Gender studies
Grief
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
High Middle Ages
Horowitz
Incest
Infant
Infanticide
Infertility
Jewish Christian
Jewish history
Jewish studies
Jews
Judaism
Legitimacy (family law)
Literature
Lying-in
Meal
Medieval literature
Midrash
Midwife
Mishnah
Mitzvah
Mother
Mourning
Neglect
Niddah
Nuclear family
Parenting
Persecution
Purim
R.
Rabbi
Rashi
Religion
Religious education
Remarriage
Responsa
Rite
Sefer (Hebrew)
Siddur
Sotah (Talmud)
Spouse
Sudden infant death syndrome
Suggestion
Tefillin
The Other Hand
Wedding
Wet nurse
Widow
Wimpel
Women in Judaism
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691130293
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Elisheva Baumgarten is Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University.
