IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1016: Rethinking Status and Self-Awareness of Medieval Jewish Women
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | The NCJW Women & Gender Studies, Tel Aviv University |
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| Organiser: | Simha Goldin, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University / Shalem Center, Jerusalem |
| Paper 1016-a | Sexual Coercion of Women in the Jewish Communities of Northern France and Germany (12th and 13th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Social History |
| Paper 1016-b | A Post Black Death Phenomenon: Burial Request of Jewish Women in Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1016-c | Self-Awareness of Medieval Jewish Women (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | During the Middle Ages, Jewish women found a way of their own to relate to the world of religious commandments. They created a model they considered appropriate to them, one that stemmed from their deep religious devotion (a trait which the men also viewed as feminine). This model contradicts male conceptualization, which is based on their prior immanent perception of femaleness. The aim of this paper is not just to describe the performance of the commandments by women, but also to portray the manner in which they defined and differentiated their femininity by means of the commandments. |