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Miri Pomerantz

Book Recommendations 11 Replies

Started by Miri Pomerantz. Last reply by Ms. Trish May 16.

Steven Bergson

Fiction with an Israeli setting 2 Replies

Started by Steven Bergson. Last reply by Susan Apr 30.

Frank Geshwind

Advice re: sale or donation of a Judaica book collection? 1 Reply

Started by Frank Geshwind. Last reply by Susan Apr 30.

 

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Nearly all of the Jewish scientists, poets and philosophers of the 11th-12th century Sephardic world resided in Andalusia, as opposed to the Arab scholars who lived throughout the Muslim world. I detail 7 men below [sorry, no women here], but ther...
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Hello Valerie, Did you ever hear from the JBC in relation to your entry in the 2008 book contest? I haven't, so I understand that my own entry had fallen. But I would have thought that at some point all those who submitted their books would have ...
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My book, The Accidental Zionist, was just reviewed this past Friday in The Ha'aretz/International Tribune Monthly Book Supplement. Here's the link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097630.html
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Meanwhile, in the Muslim lands, all sorts of philosophical and scientific advances had been occurring for several hundred years, with the West slowly becoming aware of them. [http://www.al-bab.com/arab/science.htm]. Many of these scholars, Moor an...
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Miri, I was wondering if I can learn something from you relating to my entry in the 2008 JBC book awards. My entry in the fiction category was "The Wrestler from Montreal." It sold very well - especially on Amazon - and won marvelous reviews, most...
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More about leaned Jewish women in the 11th-12th centuries. Rashi’s daughters weren’t the only women who studied Torah or carried on a profession. His granddaughters, Hannah, Miriam, and Alvina, were scholars as well. According to Shoshana Zolty’s ...
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I was just surfing here and found you here. Welcome. I am a avid fan since Red Tent and Good Harbor. I contacted you about a month ago. It is such a thrill to hear back from a author. I am looking forward to your next one. . It is such a great thr...
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Maggie Anton

12th-century renaissance; Part 7 - Jewish scholars in Sepharad

Nearly all of the Jewish scientists, poets and philosophers of the 11th-12th century Sephardic world resided in Andalusia, as opposed to the Arab scholars who lived throughout the Muslim world. I detail 7 men below [sorry, no women here], but there were many others I left out. One of the earliest [mid 11th century] and most influential philosophers [http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphiljewish1.htm] was Solomon ibn Gabirol of Saragossa. A neo-Platonist, he composed treatises on ethics and on meta… Continue

Posted by Maggie Anton on July 9, 2009 at 1:14pm

Maggie Anton

12th-century renaissance; Part 6 - Muslim scholars

Meanwhile, in the Muslim lands, all sorts of philosophical and scientific advances had been occurring for several hundred years, with the West slowly becoming aware of them. [http://www.al-bab.com/arab/science.htm]. Many of these scholars, Moor and Jew, lived in the Iberian Peninsula, during what has been called the “Golden Age of Spanish Jewry.” Whether one agrees with this description or not, it certainly wasn’t so golden a time for Jewish women, whose rabbis forbade them to study Torah or per… Continue

Posted by Maggie Anton on July 4, 2009 at 8:30pm

Maggie Anton

12th-century renaissance: Part 5 - more Jewish women

More about leaned Jewish women in the 11th-12th centuries. Rashi’s daughters weren’t the only women who studied Torah or carried on a profession. His granddaughters, Hannah, Miriam, and Alvina, were scholars as well. According to Shoshana Zolty’s “And All Your Children Shall Be Learned- Women and the Study of Toran in Jewish History,” other educated women of this time include: Miriam, wife of Rabbenu Tam [Joheved’s son]; Bella, sister of French scholar Isaac ben Menachem; the nameless wife of Fr… Continue

Posted by Maggie Anton on July 2, 2009 at 8:54pm

Maggie Anton

12th Century Renaissance: Part 4 - Jewish Women

So now I’m going to talk about Jewish women’s high position in the 11th-12th centuries. For all practical purposes, this means Ashkenazi women [living under the Christians], since Sephardic women [living under the Muslims] don’t seem to have improved their status like their Western European sisters did. As I researched the religious lives of medieval Jewish women, in order to determine the truth of legends about Rashi’s daughters being learned and wearing tefillin, I found plenty of evidence tha… Continue

Posted by Maggie Anton on June 26, 2009 at 2:30pm

Maggie Anton

12th Century Renaissance - Part 3: Christian Women

One of the fascinating things I discovered about the 12th Century Renaissance was the many women involved in it, as opposed to the later Italian Renaissance where women are pretty much nonexistent. In Judy Chicago’s monumental work of feminist art, The Dinner Party [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/home.php], 39 prominent women, from
are represented at the table, 4 of whom lived in the 11th-12th centuries – historian Hrosvitha of Germany, physician Trotula of Salerno, Queen Elea… Continue

Posted by Maggie Anton on June 25, 2009 at 9:46pm

 
 

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