Volume 3: Gender, Family, and Social Structures, 2006, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Table of Contents

Ordering Early Modern Marriage

· Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Jewish Marriage in Christian Eyes

· Yaacov Deutsch, Hebrew University, Israel

Pinkas Shamash Altona

· Elisheva Carlebach, Queens College, CUNY, New York, USA

How Family Wealth and Power Are Organized

· Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Marriage and Networkbuilding

· Claudia Ulbrich, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Family Ties & Political Structure in Pisa and Livorno

· Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USA

An Early 17th Century Ketubah from Sefer Tikun Sofrim by Rabbi Itzhak Zabakh

· Ruth Lamdan, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Keynote Address: Marriage and the Family in Early Modern Europe

· Merry Weisner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Unequal Opportunities

· Adam Teller, University of Haifa, Israel

Jewish Women and Economic Encounters with Christians

· Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University, USA

The Woodstruck Deed

· David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

“The first duty of nature is to preserve life”

· Lois Dubin, Smith College, USA

The Role of Marriage and Marital Sexuality in Lurianic Kabbalah

· Lawrence Fine, Mount Holyoke College, USA

Juveniles in Early Modern Jewish-Italian communities

· Roni Weinstein, University of Pisa, Italy

Two Cases of Apostasy in Dubno in 1716

· Magda Teter, Wesleyan University, USA

A Challenge to Sexual and Marital Propriety and Communal Reaction

· Kenneth Stow, Haifa University, Israel

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