A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe by Kaplan, Debra
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe by Kaplan, Debra

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe

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A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe by Kaplan, Debra

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe

$102.88
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe by Kaplan, Debra

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe

$102.88
Author: Debra Kaplan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life

In small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly active participants in the daily life of their communities, managing homes and professions, leading institutions and sororities, and crafting objects and texts of exquisite beauty. A Woman Is Responsible for Everything marshals a dazzling array of previously untapped archival sources to tell the stories of these woman for the first time.

Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach focus their lens on the kehillah, a lively and thriving form of communal life that sustained European Jews for three centuries. They paint vibrant portraits of Jewish women of all walks of life, from those who wielded their wealth and influence in and out of their communities to the poorest maidservants and vagrants, from single and married women to the widowed and divorced. We follow them into their homes and learn about the possessions they valued and used, the books they read, and the writings they composed. Speaking to us in their own voices, these women reveal tremendous economic initiative in the rural marketplace and the princely court, and they express their profound spirituality in the home as well as the synagogue.

Beautifully illustrated, A Woman Is Responsible for Everything lifts the veil of silence that has obscured the lives of these women for too long, contributing a new chapter to the history of Jewish women and a new understanding of the Jewish past.

Author: Debra Kaplan,Elisheva Carlebach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 10/14/2025
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.22w x 1.57d
ISBN: 9780691268613


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2025

About the Author
Debra Kaplan is the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany at Bar-Ilan University. Her books include The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany. Elisheva Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University. Her books include Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe.
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