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The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages
On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty
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Rachel Elior
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Translated by:
Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Co-publication with Magnes Press.
The Unknown History of Jewish Women—On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "People of the Book" and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy.
The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959)
The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.
The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959)
The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.
Author / Editor information
Rachel Elior, Jerusalem, Israel.
Reviews
"Elior's Magnum opus provides a treasure trove full of fascinating materials, which future reseachers as well as interested readers will no doubt find invaluable." Sylvia Barack Fishma in: Contemporary Jewry, 18.05.2024
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 22, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783111043913
Hardcover published on:
May 22, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111042770
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Front matter:
10
Main content:
793
Keywords for this book
Jewish women; Jewish history; enforced illiteracy; patriarchal order; discriminatory laws
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars in the field of Jewish history, gender studies, women studies, Jewish thought, anthropology.
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