My dear daughter

Titel: My dear daughter : Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the education of Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland / Edward Fram
darin enthalten: With a transcription of Benjamin Slonik's œSeder miẓvot ha-nashim = The order of women's commandments
Verfasser:
Veröffentlicht: Cincinnati, Ohio : Hebrew Union College Pr., 2007
Umfang: XX, 337 S.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; 33
An I. Edward Kiev Library Foundation book
Schlagworte:
ISBN: 0878204598 ; 9780878204595
Lokale Klassifikation: 2 S 3499 ; 32 3 F ; 32 7 F ; 32 13 Ja ; 26 5 E ; 26 15 F
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. ix
  • Abbreviations and Rules of Transliteration
  • p. xi
  • Introduction
  • p. xii
  • Part 1
  • Context
  • 1
  • The Bibliographic Context
  • p. 3
  • Handbooks of the Law
  • p. 3
  • Practical Obstacles to Reading in the Age of Manuscripts
  • p. 8
  • A Proposed Handbook for the Fifteenth Centiny
  • p. 12
  • Literacy and Printing in the Vernacular
  • p. 15
  • 2
  • The Shifting Center of Ashkenazic Jewry
  • p. 22
  • German Jewry on the Move
  • p. 23
  • Keeping in Touch
  • p. 26
  • Italian Jewry in Crisis and the Rise of Polish Jewry
  • p. 30
  • Cultural Exchanges
  • p. 32
  • 3
  • Glimpses into the Lives of the Main Audience
  • p. 37
  • Men's Views of Women
  • p. 37
  • Separate and Unequal
  • p. 45
  • Life at Home
  • p. 48
  • Religious Responsibilities
  • p. 60
  • Women at Prayer
  • p. 63
  • Piety and Super-Piety
  • p. 70
  • In the Community
  • p. 78
  • Part 2
  • Content
  • 4
  • Popularizing the Law
  • p. 87
  • Creating a Book People Wanted to Read
  • p. 87
  • Motivating Observance
  • p. 93
  • Historical Role Models
  • p. 98
  • The Seder mizvot ha-nashim and Earlier Handbooks
  • p. 101
  • Slonik, His Teachers, and the Shulhan 'aruk
  • p. 105
  • Aftermath
  • p. 129
  • Tables 1 and 2: Comparison of Passages from Seder mizvot ha-nashim and Shulhan 'aruk
  • p. 136
  • Appendix
  • Textual Traditions of "Women's Commandment" Books and Slonik's Seder mizvot ha-nashim
  • p. 139
  • Introduction to the Yiddish Text and Translation
  • p. 151
  • Yiddish Text and Translation
  • p. 154
  • Bibliography
  • p. 309
  • Index
  • p. 331