A Separate People: Jewish Women in Palestine, Syria and Egypt in the Sixteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11747-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

This major new contribution to the history of women examines the special status accorded to women in the Jewish communities of the Eastern Mediterranean provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Topics examined include their daily life and the social norms governing them, polygamy, divorce, child marriage, and the position of female slaves. Based on a detailed analysis of Hebrew and Arabic manuscript sources, legal and other, this first study of the subject in English opens up an almost unknown world of women to the modern researcher.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamdan, Ruth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Murciano, Yaffah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Lamdan Ph.D. (1992) has taught for many years in the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University and is a research member in the Institute for Diaspora Research in Tel Aviv.