Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe by Elisheva Baumgarten Holocaust History PhD • Rabbi Dalia Marx

PhD • Rabbi Dalia Marx

and a member of the Warsaw Yiddish literary community before the Holocaust

the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews

she elegantly weaves together the past and the present

An unhappy housewife has new emotions stirred in her by an intellectual boarder

Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe by Elisheva Baumgarten Holocaust History PhD • Rabbi Dalia MarxThis 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