Fox / Lewis Many Pious Women

Edition and Translation
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-026208-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 62, 351 Seiten

Reihe: Studia Judaica

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for generosity and respect for their wives’ piety. Whether women living in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th–century manuscript in Western Yiddish (Judeo–German) written in Italy. The text will also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now available for the very first time in the original text with an English translation.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Harry

Lewis, Justin Jaron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur Jiddische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introductory Essays;15
1.1;Renaissance Chronology;15
1.2;Preface;18
1.2.1;Women Heard and Hidden;18
1.2.2;Manuscript Description;25
1.2.3;The Spielmann Hypothesis;35
1.2.4;On the Title of our Manuscript;38
1.2.5;The Languages of MPW;39
1.2.6;Rhyming Couplets and Music;43
1.2.7;Didactic Poetry;45
1.2.8;Writing in the Vernacular;47
1.2.9;MPW and the Bovo-Buch;50
1.2.10;Belief in the Demonic and Other Folkloristic Elements;51
1.2.11;A Storyteller;53
1.2.12;Sangmeister;54
1.2.13;Reader/Audience Approval;55
1.2.14;If They Only Had Knowledge;56
1.2.15;Women’s Prayer;57
1.2.16;On Piety;58
1.2.17;The Condition of Exile;61
1.2.18;Conjugal Relations;62
1.2.19;Female Exemplarity;63
1.2.20;Redemption Through Sex;65
1.3;The Renaissance Context;68
1.3.1;Introduction;68
1.3.2;Women and Ashkenazi Jews;71
1.3.3;Did Ashkenazi Women have a Renaissance?;79
1.3.4;The “Masculine” Heroic, Moses, and the Phallus;88
1.3.5;MPW and Children;96
1.3.6;Women’s Work;101
1.3.7;Judith among the Amazons: The Power of Women;103
1.3.8;MPW and Querelle des Femmes;126
1.3.9;MPW and Food;135
1.4;Translator’s Foreword;141
1.4.1;A Translator’s Adventure;141
1.4.1.1;Reading and Handwriting;141
1.4.1.2;A World of Words;142
1.4.1.3;The World of the Author;145
1.4.2;Restoring a Minor Masterpiece;148
1.4.2.1;Traduttore, traditore;148
1.4.2.2;Transcribing, not Translating?;151
1.4.2.3;Literal Translation and “Bible Yiddish”;154
1.4.2.4;Alternative Approaches;157
1.4.2.5;Our Author as Translator;157
1.4.2.6;An Earlier Translation from Our Text;158
1.4.3;Translation Questions;159
1.4.3.1;Prayer book or Torah?;159
1.4.3.2;Playing or cursing?;160
1.4.3.3;The Contents of a Chamber Pot;161
1.4.3.4;More untranslatable words;161
1.4.4;Reading the Yiddish Text;162
1.4.4.1;An opportunity;162
1.4.4.2;The language;162
1.4.4.3;Early Yiddish Spelling;164
1.4.4.4;Consonants;165
1.4.4.5;Vowels;167
1.4.4.6;Hebrew vowels;169
2;Facsimile of folios 57b–58a of MPW in Cambridge Add. 547;171
3;Note on the Translation and the Yiddish Text;172
4;Many Pious Women. Annotated Translation and Yiddish Text;175
4.1;Part 1: “If they remembered this...”;176
4.1.1;Pregnancy;176
4.1.2;Labor;178
4.1.3;Confinement;182
4.1.4;Breast-feeding;184
4.1.5;Child Care;186
4.1.6;Women’s Hard Lot;188
4.2;Part 2: “From the Torah and from ancient history”;190
4.2.1;The Golden Calf;190
4.2.2;The Exodus;190
4.2.3;The Midwives;192
4.2.4;Jochebed;192
4.2.5;Tamar;196
4.2.6;The Mirrors;200
4.2.7;The Promised Land;204
4.2.8;Zelophehad’s Daughters;206
4.2.9;Ruth;206
4.2.10;Deborah;210
4.2.11;Jael;210
4.2.12;Bathsheba;212
4.2.13;Judith;216
4.2.14;Esther;224
4.2.15;Women and the Torah;240
4.3;Part 3: “With commandments they do wonders!”;242
4.3.1;Special Sabbaths;242
4.3.2;Wedding Customs;244
4.3.3;Religious Sewing;248
4.3.4;Circumcision Customs;250
4.3.5;Candle-Making;252
4.3.6;Postscript;252
5;Notes;254
5.1;Notes to Part 1: “If they remembered this...”;254
5.1.1;Pregnancy;254
5.1.2;Labor;256
5.1.3;Confinement;259
5.1.4;Breast-feeding;263
5.1.5;Child Care;265
5.1.6;Women’s Hard Lot;266
5.2;Notes to Part 2: “From the Torah and from ancient history”;267
5.2.1;The Golden Calf;267
5.2.2;The Exodus;268
5.2.3;The Midwives;269
5.2.4;Jochebed;270
5.2.5;Tamar;272
5.2.6;The Mirrors;275
5.2.7;The Promised Land;277
5.2.8;Zelophehad’s Daughters;279
5.2.9;Ruth;279
5.2.10;Deborah;282
5.2.11;Jael;283
5.2.12;Bathsheba;285
5.2.13;Judith;286
5.2.14;Esther;292
5.2.15;Women and the Torah;303
5.3;Notes to Part 3: “With commandments they do wonders!”;305
5.3.1;Special Sabbaths;305
5.3.2;Wedding Customs;307
5.3.3;Religious Sewing;313
5.3.4;Circumcision Customs;314
5.3.5;Postscript;315
6;Bibliography;316
7;Index;343

Über Autor(innen)

Harry Fox, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada;Justin Jaron Lewis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.