The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty

Rachel Elior

Published by De Gruyter 2023

The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty

Rachel Elior
Translated by: Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111043913

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Co-publication with Magnes Press.

The Unknown History of Jewish Women—On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "People of the Book" and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy.
The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959)
The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.

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Rachel Elior, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Notes on the Translation Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Chapter 1 A Community of Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Communal Education in Traditional World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3 Marriage in Patriarchal Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 4 Patriarchy and Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 5 Exclusive Authority over Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Chapter 6 On the Right to Literacy and Equality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 7 On the Connection between Ignorance and Enslavement: The Different Faces of Liberty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 8 ‘And He Shall Rule Over You’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 9 Myths that Constitute and Create Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter 10 Jewish Law and Gender Difference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Chapter 11 The Sin of Eve and the Punishment of Her Daughters: ‘He has made you to rule over her spirit so that she may walk according to your pleasure’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Chapter 12 Woman as ‘Other’: From the Menacing Lilith of Myth to the Real Woman Burnt as a Witch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Chapter 13 The Patriarchal Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Chapter 14 A Woman’s Duties to Her Husband and His Right to Beat Her, since ‘She is under His Authority’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
Chapter 15 Status: The Place Where Women May not Stand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	386
Chapter 16 Erasure from Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	392
Chapter 17 Exclusive Authority over Knowledge and Control of Literacy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	424
Chapter 18 The Beginning of the Revolution: New Thoughts on Relations between Men and Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Chapter 19 The Beginnings of Jewish Feminism and its General Feminist Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Chapter 20 Equal Rights for Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	512
Chapter 21 The Beginnings of Women’s Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
Chapter 22 History: Looking at the Past and the Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Chapter 23 Testimonies about Women Writers and Women’s Writings in the Jewish Library Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
Chapter 24 Women and Death in Antiquity and Late Antiquity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	579
Chapter 25 Women in the First Millennium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
Chapter 26 Women in the First Half of the Second Millennium in the East and West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	614
Chapter 27 Women Copyists, Printers and Scholars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635
Chapter 28 Women in the Early Modern Era Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	652
Chapter 29 Women Writers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Yiddish-Speaking Ashkenazi Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	657
Chapter 30 Jewish Women in the Muslim World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Chapter 31 Women in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of the Struggle for Independence and Equality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	672
Chapter 32 ‘To Create a New World’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	684
Chapter 33 On History, Literature, and Gender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	711
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	721
Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	727
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	735
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	776

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the field of Jewish history, gender studies, women studies, Jewish thought, anthropology.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 793
Keywords: Jewish women; Jewish history; enforced illiteracy; patriarchal order; discriminatory laws

eBook

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783111043913

Hardcover

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783111042770