Mother's Milk : Essays on Child-Rearing, the Household, and the Making of Jewish Culture

Deena Aranoff

ISBN 10: 0253073707 / ISBN 13: 9780253073709

Edité par Indiana University Press Sep 2025, 2025

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Neuware - This book engages with an age-old question: What accounts for the persistence of Jewish culture through the ages Despite significant variations, how were Jewish cultural elements sustained over the millennia Mother's Milk: Essays on Child-Rearing, the Household, and the Making of Jewish Culture proposes that we include the earliest phases of child-rearing in the history of Jewish cultural production. Author Deena Aranoff argues that some of the most enduring aspects of Jewish culture are produced in the context of household and family relations. Mother's Milk examines how Jewish practices, including rabbinic halakhah, are derived from household custom and unfold within the context of family life. Aranoff proposes a revised genealogy of Jewish culture that emphasizes the interplay between everyday life and formal Jewish practice.

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• Titre: Mother's Milk : Essays on Child-Rearing, the Household, and the Making of Jewish Culture
• Éditeur: Indiana University Press Sep 2025
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0253073707
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780253073709
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 238 L x 158 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 238 millimètres de largeur par 158 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 372 grammes

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This book engages with an age-old question: What accounts for the persistence of Jewish culture through the ages? Despite significant variations, how were Jewish cultural elements sustained over the millennia?
Mother's Milk: Essays on Child-Rearing, the Household, and the Making of Jewish Culture proposes that we include the earliest phases of child-rearing in the history of Jewish cultural production. Author Deena Aranoff argues that some of the most enduring aspects of Jewish culture are produced in the context of household and family relations.
Mother's Milk examines how Jewish practices, including rabbinic halakhah, are derived from household custom and unfold within the context of family life. Aranoff proposes a revised genealogy of Jewish culture that emphasizes the interplay between everyday life and formal Jewish practice.

À propos de l?auteur

Deena Aranoff teaches Jewish history, culture, and mysticism at the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. She also serves as a scholar at Wexner Heritage Foundation programs throughout the United States.