Fashioning the “Mother of Israel”: The Ottoman Jewish Historical Narrative and the Image of Jewish Salonica

Naar, Devin E.

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“…The lecture was later translated into Judeo-Spanish and published in La biblioteka de la famiya Djudia (The Library of the Jewish Family), a series of articles designed to 'cultivate a historical consciousness among Sephardic reading public in order to strengthen their sense of Jewish community, their place in Ottoman society, and their standing in the context of world Jewry'. 73 The volume included articles about the history of Salonica and 'Oriental' Jewry as part of what historian Devin Naar describes as providing 'their own independent narratives of Ottoman Jewish history'. 74 In his lecture, Cohen idealised the piety of Sephardic women in the past and compared it to women's neglectful behaviour in the present.…”

Section: Ritual Immersion Hygiene and The Pressmentioning

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Medicalising the Jewish Ritual Bath: Women, Health and Purity in the Late Ottoman Empire

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2021

Gender & History

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Menstrual impurity is among the most important religious practices in Jewish lore. Examining two case studies of Judeo–Spanish Ottoman Jewry: discussions of the temperature of the ritual bath water; and purity, hygiene and the collective of the Jewish body, this article demonstrates that menstrual impurity in Ottoman Judaism underwent an intensive medicalisation process. This process reframed menstruation from a religious concern to one involving medicine, health and hygiene. This article offers a glimpse of how non‐Western Jews dealt with European conceptions of medicalisation, actively debating them according to their Ottoman cultural surroundings. Moreover, it illuminates the mechanisms women used to negotiate their immersion and command their own bodies, emphasising their anxieties, demands and resistance.

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Section: Ritual Immersion Hygiene and The Pressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medicalising the Jewish Ritual Bath: Women, Health and Purity in the Late Ottoman Empire

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2021

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Fashioning the “Mother of Israel”: The Ottoman Jewish Historical Narrative and the Image of Jewish Salonica

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Medicalising the Jewish Ritual Bath: Women, Health and Purity in the Late Ottoman Empire

Medicalising the Jewish Ritual Bath: Women, Health and Purity in the Late Ottoman Empire

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