My Dear Daughter - Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland

Summary

This volume makes available the 1585 edition of the Seder mitzvot hanashim, in Yiddish and English. The book was intended to teach Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland the rules, rituals, and customs pertaining to the sexual life of couples within the context of marriage. Edward Fram sets the work in its bibliographical and historical contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Fram
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2017
• EAN: 9780822964940
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6494-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 520 g
• Series: Monographs of the Hebrew Union College; Monographs of the Hebrew Union; Monographs of the Hebrew Union; Monographs of the Hebrew Union College
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous