Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Reimagining Jewish Mothers
Marjorie Lehman, Jane L. Kanarek, and Simon J. Bronner
PART I . IDEALIZED MOTHERS
1 Cooking, Cuddling, and Candle-Lighting: Motherhood in
Award-Winning Jewish Children’s Literature
Emily Sigalow
2 The Jewish Mother’s Prayer: Mothers in Late Nineteenth-Century
Hungarian Jewish Women’s Prayer Books
Krisztina Frauhammer
3 Nene Mesl-e Na¯n—‘Mother is Like Bread’: The Perception of
Motherhood and Folklore Expressions among the Jews of
Afghanistan
Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur
4 Mothers and Children in Ottoman Jewish Society as Reflected in
Hebrew Sources of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Ruth Lamdan
PART II . CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONTESTATIONS OF MOTHERS
5 Like Mother Like Daughter: Mother–Daughter Relations in
Babylonian Talmudic Stories
Moshe Lavee
6 The (Re)production of a Maskilah: The Mother–Daughter Bond
between Menuhah and Hava Shapiro
Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler
7 Maurice Sendak’s Jewish Mother(s)
Jodi Eichler-Levine
8 The Jewish Mother as Metonym for Community in Postwar America
Josh Lambert
PART III . ACTIVIST MOTHERS
9 The ‘Mothers’ Who Were Not: Motherhood Imagery and Childless
Women Warriors in Early Jewish Literature
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
10 Motherhood as Motivation: American Jewish Women in Action,
1890–1940
Melissa R. Klapper
11 ‘Two Voices Heard in Castile’: Rachel and Mary Weep for Their
Children in the Age of the Zohar
Sharon Koren
12 ‘Where Was Sarah?’ Depictions of Mothers and Motherhood in
Modern Israeli Poetry on the Binding of Isaac
Dalia Marx
PART IV . RE-EMBODYING MOTHERS
13 Depictions of Childbirth in Rabbinic Literature: The Innovation
of a Genizah Midrashic Text
Shana Strauch Schick
14 Upending the Curse of Eve: A Reframing of Maternal Breastfeeding
in BT Ketubot
Miriam-Simma Walfish
15 The Biblical Root ’mn: Retrieval of a Term and Its Household
Context
Deena Aranoff
PART V . RECASTING MOTHERS
16 Mothers and Ma’asim: Maternal Roles in Medieval Hebrew Tales
Elisheva Baumgarten
17 On Teachers, Rabbinic and Maternal
Mara H. Benjamin
Contributors
Index
Marjorie Lehman is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Jane L. Kanarek is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Associate Dean of Academic Development and Advising at Hebrew College. Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is also the convener of the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. His books include Folklore: The Basics (2017) and Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture (2011).
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