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 during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691091668
• ISBN13: 9780691091662
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"