Many Pious Women: Edition and Translation

Harry Fox; Justin Jaron Lewis

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Many Pious Women

Edition and Translation

Harry Fox and Justin Jaron Lewis

Volume 62 in the series Studia Judaica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110262087

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About this book

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for generosity and respect for their wives’ piety. Whether women living in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th–century manuscript in Western Yiddish (Judeo–German) written in Italy. The text will also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now available for the very first time in the original text with an English translation.

Author / Editor information

Harry Fox, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada;
Justin Jaron Lewis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Harry Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introductory Essays
Renaissance Chronology Harry Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
The Renaissance Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Translator’s Foreword Justin Jaron Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Restoring a Minor Masterpiece Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Translation Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Reading the Yiddish Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Facsimile of folios 57b-58a of MPW in Cambridge Add. 547 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Note on the Translation and the Yiddish Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Many Pious Women. Annotated Translation and Yiddish Text
Part 1: “If they remembered this...” Justin Jaron Lewis and Harry Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part 2: “From the Torah and from ancient history” Justin Jaron Lewis and Harry Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Part 3: “With commandments they do wonders!” Justin Jaron Lewis and Harry Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Notes
Notes to Part 1: “If they remembered this…” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Notes to Part 2: “From the Torah and from ancient history” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Notes to Part 3: “With commandments they do wonders!” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 337
Keywords: Women; Yiddish; Renaissance; Ashkenaz; Italy

eBook

Published: October 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110262087

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110262056