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Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry & HBI Series on Jewish Women) Paperback – June 1, 2004

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  • Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry & HBI Series on Jewish Women
  • Paperback: 351 pages
  • Publisher: Brandeis; Tauber Institute for edition (June 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1584653922
  • ISBN-13: 978-1584653929
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Medieval Jewish Woman
By Shalom Freedman HALL OF FAME on December 18, 2005
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This work is a scholarly study of the life and world of the Jewish woman in medieval Europe during the High Middle Ages, 1000 -1300 C. E. It considers the Biblical and Talmudic influence, thee influence of the surroundings i.e. the Gentile society, and the influence of economic status on the life of the medieval Jewish woman. One important development during this time was an increasing economic role for the woman. There too was to a degree an increase in equality for the woman, this especially when the European societies are measured against the Muslim ones.

This work provides important historical and sociological insight not only into the changing reality of the Jewish woman during this time, but regarding the whole process of transformation of the society towards the Modern world.

The work is ably translated by one of the finest presently working Hebrew- English translators of Jewish religious literature, Rabbi Jonathan Chipman.
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5.0 out of 5 starslots of interesting stuff
By Michael Lewyn VINE VOICE on April 11, 2015
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This book addresses a wide variety of issues related to Jewish women in medieval Europe. Generally, the author views the Middle Ages positively, as a time when Jewish women gained status. His discussion of the following issues is especially interesting:

*The Ashkenazic ban on polygamy. Grossman suggests that Ashkenazic tradesmen often traveled from country to country, and some had the proverbial “girl in every port”. Rabbis sought to limit this practice because of the high risk that one of the wives would be abandoned, or at least be poorer as husbands spent limited assets on multiple spouses.

*Levirate marriage – the Torah-endorsed practice of childless widows marrying a brother-in-law in order to keep the dead husband’s name alive. I had thought that as Jewish sages always discouraged this practice and endorsed substitute rituals. But in fact, medieval Ashkenaz was quite divided on the issue. In some communities, levirate marriage occurred as long as either the brother-in-law or the wife wanted it; however, this led to negative results, such as brother-in-laws using the threat of levirate marriage to extort concessions on inheritance issues. As rabbis awoke to this problem, they began to discourage levirate marriage.

*Women’s higher economic status than in Muslim lands. In Christian Europe, Jewish women were active participants in family businesses (especially moneylending and other commercial pursuits), and thus achieved high status. By contrast, in Muslim nations both Jewish and Muslim women suffered due to cultural obsessions with modesty; for example, Maimonides wrote that a married woman should go out “once a month or a few times a month.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsexcellent book
By Jonathan A. Epstein on January 14, 2013
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The author presents painstakingly detailed research about the lives of Jewish (and non-Jewish) women in an important phase of history. Amazingly, he manages to lift up the problem that we don't know nearly enough about this half of society, and at the same time reveal new perspectives on what we can understand from what is available.
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