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

Participants

Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University, Israel

· Ordering Early Modern Marriage


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

· Pinkas Shamash Altona


Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USA

· Family Ties & Political Structure in Pisa and Livorno


Yaacov Deutsch, Hebrew University, Israel

· Jewish Marriage in Christian Eyes


Lois Dubin, Smith College, USA

· “The first duty of nature is to preserve life”


Lawrence Fine, Mount Holyoke College, USA

· The Role of Marriage and Marital Sexuality in Lurianic Kabbalah


Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University, USA

· Jewish Women and Economic Encounters with Christians


Ruth Lamdan, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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


David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

· The Woodstruck Deed


Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

· How Family Wealth and Power Are Organized


Kenneth Stow, Haifa University, Israel

· A Challenge to Sexual and Marital Propriety and Communal Reaction


Adam Teller, University of Haifa, Israel

· Unequal Opportunities


Magda Teter, Wesleyan University, USA

· Two Cases of Apostasy in Dubno in 1716


Claudia Ulbrich, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

· Marriage and Networkbuilding


Roni Weinstein, University of Pisa, Italy

· Juveniles in Early Modern Jewish-Italian communities


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

· Keynote Address: Marriage and the Family in Early Modern Europe


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