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My dear daughter : Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the education of Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland / Edward Fram.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fram, Edward.
- Series:
- Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 33.
- Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 33
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Women in Judaism--Poland--History--16th century.
- Women in Judaism.
- Jewish women--Education--Poland--History--16th century.
- Jewish women.
- Jewish women--Poland--Social conditions--16th century.
- Jewish women--Religious life--Poland.
- Slonik, Benjamin Aaron ben Abraham, approximately 1550-.
- Slonik, Benjamin Aaron ben Abraham.
- Jewish women--Religious life.
- Social conditions.
- Education.
- History.
- Poland.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 337 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 1 The Bibliographic Context 3
- Handbooks of the Law 3
- Practical Obstacles to Reading in the Age of Manuscripts 8
- A Proposed Handbook for the Fifteenth Centiny 12
- Literacy and Printing in the Vernacular 15
- 2 The Shifting Center of Ashkenazic Jewry 22
- German Jewry on the Move 23
- Keeping in Touch 26
- Italian Jewry in Crisis and the Rise of Polish Jewry 30
- Cultural Exchanges 32
- 3 Glimpses into the Lives of the Main Audience 37
- Men's Views of Women 37
- Separate and Unequal 45
- Life at Home 48
- Religious Responsibilities 60
- Women at Prayer 63
- Piety and Super-Piety 70
- In the Community 78
- 4 Popularizing the Law 87
- Creating a Book People Wanted to Read 87
- Motivating Observance 93
- Historical Role Models 98
- The Seder mizvot ha-nashim and Earlier Handbooks 101
- Slonik, His Teachers, and the Shulhan 'aruk 105
- Aftermath 129
- Tables 1 and 2: Comparison of Passages from Seder mizvot ha-nashim and Shulhan 'aruk 136
- Appendix Textual Traditions of "Women's Commandment" Books and Slonik's Seder mizvot ha-nashim 139
- Yiddish Text and Translation 154.
- Notes:
- "With a transcription of Benjamin Slonik's Seder mitzvot ha-nashim (The order of women's commandments) translated by Edward Fram and Agnes Romer Segal."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index.
- Contains:
- Slonik, Benjamin Aaron ben Abraham, approximately 1550- Shoyn fruʼan boykhleyn. English & Yiddish.
- ISBN:
- 0878204598
- 9780878204595
- OCLC:
- 71812878
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