Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
then, should he guard his sons’ and daughters’ minds, lest they sin toward He who created the world; thus, he should be more con ...
charge of the one aspect of his children’s education, begun only once they reached the age of five or six. These two passages cl ...
the custom that when a man died, his mother would take only 200 zuzfrom her ketubbah and she would become the custodian of the c ...
as expressions of sorrow concerning the death of children, infanticide, and abandonment, within the still unexplored context of ...
sponse to the death of the Z·addik to the death of children, explaining that the grief parents feel after the death of their chi ...
and show understanding for their feelings. This is illustrated in Sefer H·asidim, where parents of young children are instructed ...
penances parents took upon themselves when their children died. These penances consisted mainly of fasting, and both mothers and ...
have in the older children. It also distinguishes between fathers’ and mothers’ responses to the death of their children.^78 The ...
both of which have been studied extensively in the context of medieval Chris- tian urban life. These issues will be examined in ...
estate and were not allowed to remain in the family house. In other places, they had more rights. The specific economic and soci ...
One man’s wife died and he had children from her, and he married another woman and had children with her. And his second wife wa ...
in (la’asof—to gather), and the identity of his/her parents is unknown. In the case of a shetuki (from the verb lishtok—to be si ...
abandon children for reasons of moral superiority. While I would agree that cases of abandonment were few and far between within ...
In one city, there was a single woman who fornicated and became pregnant, and when she gave birth, her [female] relatives advise ...
discuss extramarital affairs, which were not uncommon, especially when hus- bands were traveling.^109 A quote from Sefer H·asidi ...
parents to lay their children down to sleep in cradles and not in their beds.^117 It is clear from the penances mentioned above, ...
outlined in the first part of the chapter reveals the value system of medieval Jews. We will examine one additional and rather e ...
we may consider those women who left their children in order to enter a con- vent as making a difficult choice in order to furth ...
the Crusade, go to great lengths to describe the parents, and especially the mothers, who chose to take their children’s lives r ...
ing up an aspect of life that was particularly dear. An examination of the Jew- ish sources does not strengthen the claim that J ...
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