Search Results for: Practicing Piety In Medieval Ashkenaz

In the urban communities of medieval Germany and northern France, the beliefs, observances, and practices of Jews allowed them to create and define their commun

In Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Elisheva Baumgarten examines how medieval Jewish engagement with the Bible--especially in the tellin

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 Hi

Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and material culture from antiquity

Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer ḥasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes