Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Spe…
This book challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural interaction between Jews and Christians in western Europe was less than that of Sephardic Jews, this study shows…
"Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusad…
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the la…
Many pious women: edition and translation
by Fox, Harry, Lewis, Justin Jaron, Foḳs, Menaḥem Tsevi
fromStudia Judaica
Edition der Handschrift Add 547, University Library Cambridge
Many pious women: edition and translation
by Lewis, Justin Jaron, Foḳs, Menaḥem Tsevi
fromStudia Judaica
Many pious women: edition and translation
by Fox, Harry, Lewis, Justin Jaron
fromStudia Judaica
Edition der Handschrift Add 547, University Library Cambridge.
Many Pious Women: Edition and Translation
by Fox, Harry, Lewis, Justin Jaron
fromStudia Judaica
Biographical note: Harry Fox, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada;Justin Jaron Lewis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. Many Pious Women is an …