Grossman Avraham - Pious and Rebellious

Pious and Rebellious

Jewish Women in Medieval Europe

Avraham Grossman

Translated from the Hebrew
by Jonathan Chipman

Brandeis University Press

Waltham, Massachusetts

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2004 by Brandeis University Press

This book was published with the generous support of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc.; the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry through the support of the Valya and Robert Shapiro Endowment at Brandeis University; and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute through the support of the Donna Sudarsky Memorial Fund.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grossman, Avraham.

[asidot u-mordot. English]

Pious and rebellious : Jewish women in Medieval Europe / Avraham Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jonathan Chipman. 1st ed.

p. cm. (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series) (Brandeis series on Jewish women)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1584653914 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 1584653922 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61168-394-3 (eBook)

1. Women in JudaismEuropeHistoryTo 1500. 2. Jewish womenEuropeHistory. 3. WomenLegal status, law, etc. (Jewish law) 4. JudaismEuropeHistoryTo 1500. 5. Hasidism. 6. Middle Ages. I. Title. II. Series.

BM729.W6G7613 2004

305.48'892404'0902dc22

2004003029

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The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Nazi persecutions between 1933 and 1945. The Institute seeks to study the history and culture of European Jewry in the modern period. The Institute has a special interest in studying the causes, nature, and consequences of the European Jewish catastrophe within the contexts of modern European diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history.

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