Voices of the Matriarchs Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women

Name: Voices of the Matriarchs Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women
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ISBN: 9780807036174

ISBN-10: 080703617X

ISBN-13: 9780807036174

Edition: 1999

Authors: Chava Weissler

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The first comprehensive study of the religious lives of central and eastern European Jewish women Most studies of Judaism focus on sources produced by and for learned men-the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, legal codes, and works of medieval philosophy, mysticism, and Hasidism. All these texts were written in Hebrew-a language seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Jewish women were not given the opportunity to learn. With Voices of the Matriarchs, Chava Weissler restores balance to our knowledge of Judaism by providing the first look at non-Hebrew Jewish source materials: the vernacular women's devotional prayers called tkhines. In Weissler's hands, these Yiddish prayers open…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 11/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


A Note on Translation and Romanization


Introduction: Jewish Spirituality in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries



The Tkhines, Religious Literature in Yiddish, and the Construction of Gender in Ashkenazic Judaism



The Tkhines: An Introduction



Studying Women's Religion



The Construction of Gender in Yiddish Devotional Literature



Mitsvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy, and Childbirth



Women in Paradise



The Tkhines and Mystical Spirituality



Kabbalistic Candle Lighting



Tears for the Shekhinah



Candles for the Dead



Bringing the Tkhines Home



American Transformations of the Tkhines



The Feminist Scholar and the Tkhines


Epilogue: The Sixth Relation


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index