Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
affinity than they would have otherwise, while the restrictions that applied to this feeling of kinship helped supported the bro ...
Jewish community, we must ask: What tensions existed that the institution of ba’alei brit could alleviate? How could honoring a ...
that a promise to serve as shushvin was violated. In one Ashkenazic source, however, we find the ba’al brit mentioned alongside ...
gest that the role of ba’alei brit served to ease some of the tensions such nego- tiations must have generated. When honoring a ...
ing this period, the paternal family, in fact, lost some of its previous power with respect to marriage agreements. I would sugg ...
reflects tensions between families. However, it reflects additional tensions in society as well. The presence of women in the ma ...
us to examine women’s participation in ritual more extensively. We find that the case before us is not a unique one. In the elev ...
cently obtained freedoms. These restrictions on women’s ritual participation have a distinct parallel in thirteenth- and fourtee ...
Appendix RITUAL OBLIGATIONS OF CHILDREN: CHANGING CONCEPTIONS As we have seen in this chapter, the thirteenth century was a peri ...
who have started formal education. Yet there is a new twist to this discussion in the middle of the thirteenth century. R. Meir ...
Chapter Three ADDITIONAL BIRTH RITUALS R. Judah said: Three persons require guarding, namely a sick person, a bride groom, and a ...
Hollekreisch This ritual, in which the infant was given a non-Jewish name, was customary for both boys and girls. In the case of ...
Figure 5. Hollekreisch. Minhagbuch, Nürnberg cod. 7058, fol. 43b– 44b, from 1589. Photo courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, ...
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of Leviticus under his head.”^6 As this description includes the element lacking in Mah·zor Vitry, the naming of the child, it c ...
ing of the name Hollekreisch is the calling of the baby by a shem h·ol, why did the participants yell out “Holle, Holle”? How di ...
of synods from the thirteenth century onward), the need to trick Frau Holle into thinking a baby had been baptized was no longer ...
medieval period were designed to ward off Lilith, whom I will discuss later in this chapter.^28 We should note, however, that Je ...
the purpose of the meal was to ward off Lilith.^36 If this is so, then the Wach- nacht fulfilled a purpose similar to that of th ...
If so, two birth rituals—one for the baby and one for the mother—took place on the same day. The parturient’s ritual has receive ...
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