Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
in cases where she was widowed or divorced during the period she was nurs- ing her child? As we shall see, these events were of ...
feeding is, legally, a responsibility a woman owed to her husband (rather than to her child). This legal construction is indeed ...
obligation toward their child or toward their ex-husband.^28 By contrast, wid- ows were viewed as obligated to their deceased hu ...
ish woman should not, according to this understanding, aid in providing sus- tenance for a non-Jewish child. Jews, Christians, a ...
The Koran, on the other hand, presents a legal system that is much closer to the Jewish legal principles outlined above. As in J ...
the author of Mah·zor Vitrydiscusses the Mishna, “at the age of five one is ripe for Bible” (Avot 5:21), and explains why it is ...
Manuals written for parents in Christian society suggested weaning girls about six months before boys, and this seems to have be ...
self—if she gave birth to an infant out of wedlock, or if she was a widow. Oth- erwise, the father of the infant—whether husband ...
recognizes her and refuses to nurse from anyone else. But now, the wet nurse who nurses her [“Rachel’s”] son [Baby A] refuses to ...
so. Many of the women who left their jobs early did so because of an additional pregnancy that prevented them from continuing to ...
One of the traditional obligations of Purim is the giving of gifts to the poor.^71 But the intent of the commandment was the giv ...
themselves in need of charity, had wet nurses, then these wet nurses surely could not have earned much. Mother or Wet Nurse? We ...
Moses have nursed from a non-Jewish wet nurse?” Their argument is that since according to Jewish law a non-Jewish woman is permi ...
Jewish wet nurses was widespread, and medieval Jewish sources express no dis- comfort with the practice of hiring them. In medie ...
ment of Christian wet nurses by Jews was widespread. This practice is also at- tested to in charters given to the Jews, in which ...
Christian lullaby sung by his or her wet nurse. R. Judah the Pious does not recommend, however, firing the wet nurse, but rather ...
He explains that one can give young children nonkosher food. Yet he stipu- lates some precautions: Despite this, one should warn ...
or even occasional, Jewish practice. In any case, its appearance in Christian sources is further evidence of Christian sensitivi ...
An investigation concerning whether Jewish children were sent to the homes of Christian wet nurses requires an excursus into the ...
R. Elh·anan’s warning against sending an infant to the wet nurse’s home or even leaving him/her in a Jewish home alone with the ...
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