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'My Happiness Overturned': Mourning, Memory And A Woman's Writing, Rachel Greenblatt
'My Happiness Overturned': Mourning, Memory And A Woman's Writing, Rachel Greenblatt
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
In the late seventeenth century, Beila Perlhefter mourned her seven children in the introduction she wrote to a Yiddish ethical work written (at her urging, she tells her readers) by her husband, Ber. While the autobiographical information provided in the introduction is sparse indeed, it shares certain generic characteristics with other self-writing by early modern Jews from Prague, including Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller's "Megillat eivah." At the same time, each voice is a different voice, all the more so the rare instance of a woman's voice, and this short piece defies easy categorization.
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- Sefer …
Juveniles In Early Modern Jewish-Italian Communities Between Family Control And Kabbalistic Piety, Roni Weinstein
Juveniles In Early Modern Jewish-Italian Communities Between Family Control And Kabbalistic Piety, Roni Weinstein
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The presentation discusses conceptions of childhood, youth, and marriage in Italian Jewish Culture.
The text reproduced is an excerpt from a mid-seventeenth century work by Pinhas Baruch Monselice.
The Role Of Marriage And Marital Sexuality In Lurianic Kabbalah, Lawrence Fine
The Role Of Marriage And Marital Sexuality In Lurianic Kabbalah, Lawrence Fine
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The presentation situates the development of Lurianic Kabbalah in its context of sixteenth-century Safed. Focusing on two texts by Hayyim Vital, Lawrence Fine discusses sexuality and marital relations in Lurianic Kabbalah and among the Kabbalists themselves.
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- Ta'amei Mitsvot, Parshat Bereshit (Reasons for the Commandments concerning “Be Fruitful and Multiply”) by Hayim Vital (1570s)
- Sha'ar Kavvanot (The Gate of [Contemplative] Intentions, Concerning Sabbath Eve) by Hayim Vital (1570s)
The Woodstruck Deed The Documentation Of Accidental Defloration Among The Jews Of Early Modern Italy, David Malkiel
The Woodstruck Deed The Documentation Of Accidental Defloration Among The Jews Of Early Modern Italy, David Malkiel
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The “woodstruck” (mukat ets) deed, a Hebrew document that officially records the accidental defloration of a young girl, appears in sixteenth-century Italy, in a block of deeds recorded by Jewish notaries in Rome, in a rabbinic responsum and in the record book of the Padua community. Prior to that, there is no record of such an instrument anywhere in Jewish history and literature, despite the fact that the frequency of accidental defloration must have been a constant. Moreover, the registers of the Jewish notaries of sixteenth-century Rome contain over a hundred such deeds for the sixteenth century alone. The appearance …
Jewish Women And Economic Encounters With Christians, Debra Kaplan
Jewish Women And Economic Encounters With Christians, Debra Kaplan
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
R. Yair Hayyim ben Moses Samson Bacharach (1638-1702) is well-known for his knowledge of halakha and Kabbalah. Over the course of his lifetime, he served as the rabbi in several locations in the Holy Roman Empire. In these two responsa, Bacharach deals with one of the halakhic problems surrounding women’s trade with non-Jews. Such trade inevitably caused women to enter into seclusion (yihud) with non-Jews, especially since according to Jewish law, the presence of the non-Jew’s wife did not alleviate the prohibition of seclusion with a non-Jew.
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Pinkas Shamash Altona (1766-1767), Elisheva Carlebach
Pinkas Shamash Altona (1766-1767), Elisheva Carlebach
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Elisheva Carlebach's presentation discusses excerpts from the Pinkas Shamash Altona, providing a glimpse on an aspect of Jewish life that usually remained obscured--illegitimate children born to Jewish domestic servants, and the servants themselves, held very marginal status in the community. One of the pertinent issue was death. If they died the responsibility for buying them was contested between many different parties.
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- Pinkas Shamash Altona (1766-1767)
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Jewish Marriage In Christian Eyes, Yaacov Deutsch
Jewish Marriage In Christian Eyes, Yaacov Deutsch
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
This presentation deals with a Christian description of early modern Jewish marriage rituals. The text is a translation of a chapter on Jewish marriage from Johannes Buxtorf's "Synagoga Judaica" or "Jewish Synagogue" (1603).
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- Synagoga Judaica (The Jewish Synagogue) by Johannes Buxtorf (1603)
Emw 2006: Gender, Family, And Social Structures, Emw 2006
Emw 2006: Gender, Family, And Social Structures, Emw 2006
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The 2006 Early Modern Workshop on the topic of “Gender, Family, and Social Structures” addressed a spectrum of topics about the transformation of the concept and form of family in general, and of Jewish family in particular in the early modern period.
The workshop took up questions of: marriage rituals, as represented by early modern (Elisheva Baumgarten) and Christians (Jacob Deutsch), and marriage contracts (Ruth Lamdan), responsibilities of the Jewish community to women and out-of-wedlock children (Elisheva Carlebach), challenges to marriage and marital propriety (Debra Kaplan on rabbinic responses to Jewish women’s encounters with Christian men; David Malkiel and Kenneth …