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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Women Reading the Hebrew Book

  • Adelman, Howard
    “The Educations and Literary Activities of Jewish Women in Italy During the Renaissance and the Catholic Restoration,” [Hebrew] pp. 9-23 in, ספר יובל לשלמה סימונסון = Shlomo Simonsohn Jubilee Volume (Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press, 1993) edd. Daniel Carpi et al.
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .S566 1993
    Van Pelt Library. BM42 .S56 1993

  • Adelman, Howard
    “Finding Women’s Voices in Italian Jewish Literature,” pp. 50-69 in, Women of the Word:  Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1994) ed. Judith Baskin
    Katz Center - Stacks. PN842 .W66 1994

  • Baskin, Judith
    “‘May the Writer Be Strong’:  Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Copied by and for Women,” Nashim 16 (2008) 9-28
    Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .N37
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nashim/

  • Baskin, Judith
    “Some Parallels in the Education of Medieval Jewish and Christian Women,” Jewish History 5 (1991) 41-51
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .J46556
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .J46556
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20101094.pdf?acceptTC=true

  • Bell, Susan G.
    “Women Medieval Book Owners:  Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture,” pp. 149-61 in,
    Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1988) ed. Mary C. Erler
    Van Pelt Library. HQ1143 .W63 1988
    [repr. pp. 135-161 from, repr. from Signs:  Journal of Women in Culture and Society 7(1982) 742-768 
    Van Pelt Library.  HQ1101 .S5 ]

  • Boffey, Julia
    “Women Authors and Women's Literacy in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England,” pp. 159-82 in, Women and Literature in Britian, 1150-1500 (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993) ed. Carol C. Meale
    Van Pelt Library. PR113 .W64 1993

  • Cohen, Evelyn M.
    “Women’s Illuminated Hebrew Prayer Books in Renaissance Italy,” pp. 305-312 in, Donne nella storia degli ebrei d’Italia:  Atti del IX Convegno internazionale “Italia Judaica” Lucca, 6-9 Giugno 2005 (Florence:  Giuntina, 2007) edd. Michele Luzzati and Cristina Galasso
    Katz Center - Stacks. HQ1172 .C66 2005
    Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .C66 2005

  • Fram, Edward
    My Dear Daughter:  Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland
    [Slonik's, Seder mitzvot nashim (Cracow :  Regra de Coisas Boas para Donas, 1577)]
    Cincinnati:  Hebrew Union College Press, 2007
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM729.W6 F72 2007
    Van Pelt - Rosengarten Reserve. BM729.W6 F72 2007

  • Green, Monica H.
    “Books as a Source of Medical Education for Women in the Middle Ages,” DYNAMIS. Acta Hispanicad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historuiam Illustrandam 20 ( 2000) 331-369
    http://www.ugr.es/~dynamis/completo20/PDF/Dyna-11.PDF

  • Kogman-Appel, Katrin
    “Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture,” pp. 525-563 in volume two, Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture, two volumes (Leiden : Brill, 2012) ed. Therese Martin
    Fine Arts Library. N5970 .R25 2012

  • Labalme, Patricia H.
    “Women’s Roles in Early Modern Venice:  An Exceptional Case,” pp. 132-36 in, Beyond Their Sex:  Learned Women of the European Past (New York : New York University Press, c1980) ed. Patricia H. Labalme
    Van Pelt Library. HQ1148 .B49

  • Meale, Carol C.
    “‘Alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch’: Laywomen and their Books in Late Medieval England,” pp. 128-58 in, Women and Literature in Britian, 1150-1500 (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993) ed. Carol C. Meale
    Van Pelt Library. PR113 .W64 1993

  • Richler, Benjamin
    “On the Education of Daughters of Wealthy Jews in Renaissance Italy,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer:  Collected Essays 68 (1998) 275-79
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Rodrigue Schwarzwald, Ora
    “Two sixteenth-century Ladino prayer books for women,” European Judaism 43.2 (2010) 37-51
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. BM1 .E86

  • Rosman, Moshe
    “Edward Fram My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland With a transcription of Benjamin Slonik’s Seder mitzvot nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments), translated by Edward Fram and Agnes Romer Segal (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2007),” [important review article] Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 16 (2008) 242-247
    Van Pelt Library. HQ1172 .N37
    http://muse.jhu.edu/article/254183

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