Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe

by Elisheva Baumgarten

Book Overview

This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history.

Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130299
• ISBN13: 9780691130293
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"