Jewish Women and Jewish Society (Medieval Europe)

The subject of this course is the relationship between men and women within the Jewish society that lived among the Christian population for a period of some three hundred and fifty years. The study concentrates on Germany, northern France and England from the middle of the 10^th century – from the time when we have enough Hebrew sources to enable us to undertake a social analysis of the Jewish communities – until the middle of the second half of the 14^th century, by which time the Christian population had had enough of the Jewish communities living among it and expelled them from almost all of the places in which they were living