Mothers in the Jewish imagination. Jewish Cultural Studies: Volume Five.

Lehman, Marjori; Kanarek, Jane L. & Bronner, Simon J., edited by.

ISBN 10: 1906764662 / ISBN 13: 9781906764661

Edité par The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2017

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Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 400 pp., index "Introduction: Reimagining Jewish Mothers," Marjorie Lehman, Jane L. Kanarek, and Simon J. Bronner. Articles are "Cooking, Cuddling, and Candle-Lighting: Motherhood in Award-Winning Jewish Children s Literature," Emily Sigalow, "The Jewish Mother s Prayer: Mothers in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Jewish Women s Prayer Books," Krisztina Frauhammer, "Nene Mesl-e Nan Mother is Like Bread : The Perception of Motherhood and Folklore Expressions among the Jews of Afghanistan," Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur, "Mothers and Children in Ottoman Jewish Society as Reflected in Hebrew Sources of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries," Ruth Lamdan, "Like Mother Like Daughter: Mother Daughter Relations in Babylonian Talmudic Stories," Moshe Lavee, "The (Re)production of a Maskilah: The Mother Daughter Bond between Menuhah and Hava Shapiro," Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler, "Maurice Sendak s Jewish Mother(s)," Jodi Eichler-Levine, "The Jewish Mother as Metonym for Community in Postwar America," Josh Lambert, "The Mothers Who Were Not: Motherhood Imagery and Childless Women Warriors in Early Jewish Literature," Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, "Motherhood as Motivation: American Jewish Women in Action, 1890 1940," Melissa R. Klapper, " Two Voices Heard in Castile : Rachel and Mary Weep for Their Children in the Age of the Zohar," Sharon Koren, " Where Was Sarah? Depictions of Mothers and Motherhood in Modern Israeli Poetry on the Binding of Isaac," Dalia Marx, "Depictions of Childbirth in Rabbinic Literature: The Innovation of a Genizah Midrashic Text," Shana Strauch Schick, "Upending the Curse of Eve: A Reframing of Maternal Breastfeeding in BT Ketubot," Miriam-Simma Walfish, "The Biblical Retrieval of a Term and Its Household Context," Deena Aranoff, "Mothers and Ma asim: Maternal Roles in Medieval Hebrew Tales," Elisheva Baumgarten, "On Teachers, Rabbinic and Maternal," Mara H. Benjamin.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Mothers in the Jewish imagination. Jewish Cultural Studies: Volume Five.
• Éditeur: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, Liverpool
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1906764662
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781906764661
• Reliure: Softbound
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies, 2017.

The ‘Jewish mother’ figure is a hallmark of Jewish culture, one which appears in the works of rabbis, artists, poets, and activists across time and place. While depictions of mothers and motherhood abound in Jewish writings, they vary significantly according to social context. These representations therefore offer important insights into the Jewish cultural imagination, and the ways in which writers resort to the figure of the Jewish mother to comprehend and construct their world.

The contributors to this volume highlight the complex network of symbols and images associated with Jewish mothers and motherhood as well as the vast array of social, historical, and cultural patterns that characterizations of mothers reflect. Each essay treats the topic from a specific perspective, spanning from mother--daughter relationships in the Talmud to depictions of mothers in twentieth-century American Jewish children’s literature. Collectively, they present a provocative examination of the ways mothers shape and problematize Jewish identity.

This volume seeks to give the figure of the mother a new and enhanced place at the heart of Judaism: not only as a central figure in family life, but also as a key agent in the transmission of Jewish religion and culture.

À propos de l'auteur

Marjorie Lehman is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Jane L. Kanarek is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Associate Dean of Academic Development and Advising at Hebrew College. Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is also the convener of the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. His books include Folklore: The Basics (2017) and Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture (2011).