Shulamit and Margarete

Power, Gender, and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-391-04145-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

Shulamit and Margarete takes a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century. Drawing on the rich source material of the village, it casts a searching light on the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. By writing the history of the village from multiple perspectives, the author is able to uncover fascinating artefacts of a cultural contact between Christians and Jews, and to gain insights into the agency and experiences of women in rural society. The book is enhanced by a variety of sources and illustrations relating to Jewish history, such as the last will of Abraham Levy and the previously unknown portraits of Fromette Levy and Bernard Lipmann.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ulbrich, Claudia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dunlap, William V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface to the English Edition

1. Introduction

2. Approaches: The Village
3. Searching for Clues: Spheres of Female Agency in the Mirror of Biography
4. Contexts: Outlines of a Village Society
5. A Shift in Perspective: The History of the Jewish Community
6. “Woman—She is the House”: Glimpses of Jewish Women’s Lives
7. From the Margin to the Center: Christian-Jewish Relations
8. Concluding Reflections

Appendix: Last Will of Abraham Jacob

Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Ulbrich, Dr. phil. (1977) University of Saarbrücken, is professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin. She has published extensively on the history of rural societies in the early modern period and on gender history. She is co-editor of L'Homme. Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft.