Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
cial, and, insofar as they are interrelated, I will identify the connections. These artificial distinctions do, however, facilit ...
Jewish sources speak of the centrality of birth and motherhood for a woman’s identity in several contexts. Although they never s ...
offspring, since a woman without children is like a dead person.^10 While sources provide some expressions of the sorrow of men ...
comparison between Jewish and Christian family life, and as justification for studying each society separately.^14 Even scholars ...
ment was recited at the wedding ceremony.^20 Thus, it became an important part of the blessing for a newlywed couple. This chang ...
the Rahabad, both of whom lived south of the areas of this study and far away from the locales of the theologians they cite—Pari ...
The Jewish and Christian attitudes toward procreation as described above, raise new possibilities for comparative study of Jews ...
ther contribute to the creation of the embryo, each with his or her own seed. In the Talmud, the implications of this theory are ...
Infertility The issue of fertility and infertility serves as a window enabling us to examine the interaction of the ideological ...
were linked to theoretical understandings of the duty of procreation and of the marriage bond as well as to social issues. These ...
experiment is suggested in the medieval Latin medical treatises known as the Trotula as well.^59 Most of the techniques proposed ...
Christian positions. First, however, a few words concerning divorce and change are in order. One of the most famous developments ...
1170), less importance was attributed to procreation. Men were no longer forced to divorce their infertile wives and were certai ...
in previous cases in which men are forced to divorce their barren wives. Rashi’s grandson, Rabbenu Tam (1100–1171) restates the ...
communities when a person bore an unresolved claim against someone else in the community.^73 It seems that in this case, rabbini ...
tendency to mistrust women and not accept their word against that of a man who claimed he was not impotent. On the other hand, w ...
certainly demonstrates shared attitudes. While we have no hard evidence of di- alogue between Jewish and Christian authorities o ...
which he discusses obstetric treatises from medieval Spain, but no work has been done to date on Jewish society in Ashkenaz.^87 ...
The understanding of birth as a time of great danger stemmed first and fore- most from reality; death during labor and birth was ...
course, not uniquely Jewish. It might even have been of greater importance in Christian sources. In Christianity, the origin of ...
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