Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten

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JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS FROM THE ANCIENT TO THE MODERN WORLD Series editors R. Stephen Humphreys, William Chester Jordan, ...

Mothers and Children jewish family life in medieval europe Elisheva Baumgarten princeton university press princeton and oxford ...

Copyright © 2004 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey ...

For Yaacov, Yonatan, and Ayelet, with love ...

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CONTENTS Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter One.Birth 21 Chapter Two.Circumcision and B ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS Figure1. Circumcision and Baptism, Joshua in Gilgal 60 Figure2. Z·ipporah As Circumciser 66 Figure3. Isaac’s Circu ...

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My debts, institutional and personal, material and spiritual, are great. Finan- cial support for the project cam ...

then are a continual source of encouragement and inspiration. I thank her for her generosity and constant support. Outside Israe ...

My parents, Al and Rita Baumgarten, helped in more ways than can be re- called—reading drafts of the manuscript, encouraging me, ...

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ABBREVIATIONS AJS Review Association of Jewish Studies Review CCCM Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio medievalis EJ Encyclopedia ...

Meir b Barukh of Rothenburg’s writings She’elot uTeshuvot (Crimona) She’elot uTeshuvot, Crimona edition (repr. Jerusalem, 1986) ...

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Introduction IN HIS FIRST LETTERto Héloise, Abelard draws a sharp distinction between family life and the life of the philosophe ...