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Arizona State University - Fall 2012 | ||
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Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) (Illustrated Edition) by Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisheva Cook, Peter Schafer, William Jordan Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-691-09166-8 / 0691091668 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-09166-2 / 9780691091662 This 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 |