Many pious women : edition and translation / Harry Fox, Justin Jaron Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Harry.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Library.

Lewis, Justin Jaron, 1961-

Series:

Studia Judaica

Studia Judaica ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women.

Women--Religious aspects.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for generosity and respect for their wives' piety. Whether women living in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th-century manuscript in Western Yiddish (Judeo-German) written in Italy. The text will also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now available for the very first time in the original text with an English translation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Dedication

Acknowledgments / Fox, Harry

Table of Contents

Introductory Essays

Renaissance Chronology / Fox, Harry

Preface

The Renaissance Context

Translator's Foreword / Lewis, Justin Jaron

Restoring a Minor Masterpiece

Translation Questions

Reading the Yiddish Text

Facsimile of folios 57b-58a of MPW in Cambridge Add. 547

Note on the Translation and the Yiddish Text

Many Pious Women. Annotated Translation and Yiddish Text

Part 1: "If they remembered this..." / Lewis, Justin Jaron / Fox, Harry

Part 2: "From the Torah and from ancient history" / Lewis, Justin Jaron / Fox, Harry

Part 3: "With commandments they do wonders!" / Lewis, Justin Jaron / Fox, Harry

Notes

Notes to Part 1: "If they remembered this..."

Notes to Part 2: "From the Torah and from ancient history"

Notes to Part 3: "With commandments they do wonders!"

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613430465

9781283430463

1283430460

9783110262087

3110262088

OCLC:

769101909