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

by Edward Fram

Book Overview

How did Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland learn all the rules, rituals, and customs pertaining to the sexual life of couples within the context of marriage? As in other areas of ritual life that concerned the household, it would seem that the primary source for the education of Jewish women was other women. But rabbinic law dictates that Jewish women who experience uterine bleeding are prohibited from having physical contact of any kind with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964945
• ISBN13: 9780822964940
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"