The Jewish Family in the Rhineland in the High Middle Ages: Form and Function

Stow, Kenneth

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“…135 He based his conclusions on a study of Jewish memorial books, in which, often after deadly persecutions, the names of the victims and their family ties were recorded. 135 He based his conclusions on a study of Jewish memorial books, in which, often after deadly persecutions, the names of the victims and their family ties were recorded.…”

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Traditional Jewish Sexual Practices and Their Possible Impact on Jewish Fertility and Demography

Marienberg

2013

H. Theolo. Review

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Many religious traditions attempt to regulate the sexual practices of their members. Generally, their main tool for doing so is prescribing with whom one may or may not have intimate relations. Forbidden partners might include, for example, members of the same sex, relatives, or people of other religious and ethnic groups. Additional methods for defining how and when intimate relations are permissible are also not unheard of. For example, sexual relations using certain positions or occurring on certain days or hours or in certain places might be declared sinful. The three main Bible-related religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all have in their toolboxes these various regulatory instruments; many other religious groups use them as well.

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Section: Day Of Relationsmentioning

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Traditional Jewish Sexual Practices and Their Possible Impact on Jewish Fertility and Demography

Marienberg

2013

H. Theolo. Review

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“…Plakans & Halpern, 1981, pp. 21-25;Stow, 1987Stow, , pp. 1088Stow, , 1096Stow, -1097Todeschini, 1990, pp.…”

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“…The conjugal unit was also the most prevalent family structure in medieval Rhineland Jewish society. The family size was stable with an average of 3.39 persons at the time of the First Crusade and 3.69 persons in the 13th century (Stow, 1987(Stow, , pp. 1085(Stow, -1098.…”

Section: The Jewish Familymentioning

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The Jewish population and family in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century

Guldon¹,

Kowalski²

2003

The History of the Family

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The sources that can be employed to examine demographic aspects of the Jewish population and family in 18th-century Poland -Lithuania are sparse and mostly fiscal in origin. Since this source material has been preserved only for some periods and regions, few generalizations can be made. First, the authors have referred to the most comprehensive census that was carried out in 1791 by household in Cracow province (województwo krakowskie). It does not allow for detailed family reconstitution, however. Although extended/multiple family households might have been fairly common, the twogenerational conjugal family unit seems to have prevailed, and no more than four nuclear families lived in one house. In addition, the age at first marriage was influenced only to a limited extent by the traditional practice of early marriage. D

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“…But it now seems as if the Jewish households of Plantagenet England may often resemble, not too surprisingly, those late twelfthcentury Jewish family units in the Rhineland recently revealed by Professor Kenneth Stow as-in his own words-'small, comprising an average of five souls, and two generational only'. 24 If so, it seems more likely than not that the great majority of the small, nucleated, urban Jewish households of medieval England, of which there were perhaps rarely more than thirty or forty in any provincial Jewry, were no larger, and conceivably smaller, than those of their Christian neighbours. Such a possibility, perhaps a little unexpected although not in itself at all startling, may make some well-known features of the history of the medieval Anglo-Jewry easier to explain, but leaves others as inexplicable as ever.…”

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The Role of Jewish Women in Medieval England (Presidential Address)

Dobson

1992

Stud. Church Hist.

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In devoting its attention to the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, the Ecclesiastical History Society has self-evidently addressed a theme as fundamental as it is often distressing to the practitioners of both religions. For many historians of the English Church, as for many of this Society’s members themselves, that relationship presents the additional irony that it would have been almost impossible actually to encounter a Jew in this country during those three centuries which tend to interest them most. As it is, Edward I’s expulsion of all his Jewish subjects from his realm on 18 July 1290 (‘without any hope of ever remaining there’) not only aborted a still inconclusive experiment in religious co-existence, but for centuries relegated the lives of the Jews and Jewesses of Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet England to the obscurity of the historically irrelevant. No longer in 1991 does that seem at all so obvious; and one supposes that nothing would have surprised Henry III and Edward I more than that their treatment of the Jewish minority within their realm should now often seem more ‘relevant’ to the churches of the modern world than any other feature of their respective reigns. For that reason, above all, there must be every prospect that the relationship between Jews and Christians in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England will soon be subjected to more detailed analysis than ever before. Nor, for similar reasons, has it ever been quite so obvious as it is today that the study of medieval Anglo-Jewry is too important to remain the exclusive preserve of historians who are themselves Jews.

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The Jewish Family in the Rhineland in the High Middle Ages: Form and Function

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Traditional Jewish Sexual Practices and Their Possible Impact on Jewish Fertility and Demography

Traditional Jewish Sexual Practices and Their Possible Impact on Jewish Fertility and Demography

The Jewish population and family in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century

The Role of Jewish Women in Medieval England (Presidential Address)

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