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Daughters of Tradition: women in Yiddish Culture in the 16th-18th Centuries
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Abstract This article focuses on the cultural world of Jewish women in Eastern Europe between the 16th century and the beginning of the 19th century. It reveals the extent to which Yiddish language and literature were a means of gaining knowledge for such women. This is because Yiddish - a Jewish language th... view more
This article focuses on the cultural world of Jewish women in Eastern Europe between the 16th century and the beginning of the 19th century. It reveals the extent to which Yiddish language and literature were a means of gaining knowledge for such women. This is because Yiddish - a Jewish language that developed around 1000 years ago among the Jews living in Ashkenaz - was the language of the people, of ordinary life, of business and social relations, and also of the home and the kitchen. It was the language of female spaces, stigmatized by its ‘humble’ associations with women and uncultivated persons. In turn, Yiddish literature was closely associated with women and a female readership.... view less
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Free Keywords
Jewish women; literature; Yiddish;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 213-226
Journal
European Journal of Women's Studies, 12 (2005) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805051243
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)