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Practicing piety in medieval Ashkenaz : men, women, and everyday religious observance / Elisheva Baumgarten

Baʾumgarṭen, Elishevaʿ, 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

1. ed.

Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014

334 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Standing before God: purity and impurity in the synagogue -- Jewish fasting and atonement in a Christian context -- Communal charity: evidence from medieval Nürnberg -- Positive time-bound commandments: class, gender, and transformation -- Conspicuous in the city: medieval Jews in urban centers -- Feigning piety: tracing two tales of pious pretenders -- Practicing piety: social and comparative perspectives.

Standing before God: purity and impurity in the synagogueJewish fasting and atonement in a Christian context -- Communal charity: evidence from Medieval Nurnberg -- Positive time-bound commandments: class, gender, and transformation -- Conspicuous in the city: Medieval Jews in urban centers -- Feigning piety: tracing two tales of pious pretenders -- Practicing piety: social and comparative perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-322) and index

Erscheint auch als: Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz / Baʾumgarṭen, Elishevaʿ (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz / Baʾumgarṭen, Elishevaʿ (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8122-4640-7 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0-8122-4640-3 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

9780812246407

OCoLC: 891745232      ; OCoLC: 900514030     

OCoLC: 891745232 (aus SWB)     

BM290

296.70940902 ; 296.7094/0902     Ähnliche Literatur

SSG-Nummer(n): 0

*Aschkenasim ; Religiöses Leben ; Geschichte 700-1500     Zum Register

*Aschkenasim ; Gemeinde / Judentum ; Geschichte 1000-1300 ; Judentum ; Religiöses Leben      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Judaism -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 ; Jewish way of life -- History -- To 1500 ; Ashkenazim -- History -- To 1500 ; Hasidism, Medieval ; Jews -- Europe -- Social life and customs -- To 1500 ; Jews -- France -- Social life and customs -- History -- To 1500 ; Jews -- Germany -- Social life and customs -- History -- To 1500 ; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500 ; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500

Ashkenazim ; Christianity ; Hasidism, Medieval ; Interfaith relations ; Jewish way of life ; Jews ; Social life and customs ; Judaism ; Europe ; France ; Germany ; History

In the urban communities of medieval Germany and northern France, the beliefs, observances, and practices of Jews allowed them to create and define their communities on their own terms as well as in relation to the surrounding Christian society. Although medieval Jewish texts were written by a learned elite, the laity also observed many religious rituals as part of their everyday life. In Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz, Elisheva Baumgarten asks how Jews, especially those who were not learned, expressed their belonging to a minority community and how their convictions and deeds were made apparent to both their Jewish peers and the Christian majority. Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz provides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard to the ways Jews and Christians, separately and jointly, treated their male and female members. Medieval Jews often shared practices and beliefs with their Christian neighbors, and numerous notions and norms were appropriated by one community from the other. By depicting a dynamic interfaith landscape and a diverse representation of believers, Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish practice and the shared elements that composed the piety of Jews in relation to their Christian neighbors. (Publisher's website)