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

Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations Series Jewish Culture and Contexts Jewish culture and contexts. Contents 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 Summary Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address the practices of men and women together, Baumgarten explores how Jews who were not learned alongside those who were expressed their convictions and reinforced their identities as Jews within a Christian world 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 Analysis History Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-322) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject 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 HISTORY -- Medieval. Ashkenazim Christianity Hasidism, Medieval Interfaith relations Jewish way of life Jews -- Social life and customs Judaism Europe France Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812290127 0812290127

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