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Informationen zum Autor Elisheva Baumgarten is Associate Professor of Medieval Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe. Klappentext Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address the practices of men and women together, Baumgarten explores how Jews who were not learned alongside those who were expressed their convictions and reinforced their identities ass Jews within a Christian world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Standing Before God: Purity and Impurity in the Synagogue Chapter 2. Jewish Fasting and Atonement in a Christian Context Chapter 3. Communal Charity: Evidence from Medieval Nurnberg Chapter 4. Positive Time-Bound Commandments: Class, Gender, and Transformation Chapter 5. Conspicuous in the City: Medieval Jews in Urban Centers Chapter 6. Feigning Piety: Tracing Two Tales of Pious Pretenders Chapter 7. Practicing Piety: Social and Comparative Perspectives Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
