Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe by Elisheva Baumgarten Dictionaries seek clandestine meetings

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Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe by Elisheva Baumgarten Dictionaries seek clandestine meetingsThis book presents a synthetic history of the family the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish Christian social history. Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life during the period