Communal Organization: Social Services and Education
Medieval W. Christendom
- Introduction
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- Primary Texts
- Custom of R. Kalonymous, Ma`asei ha-Geonim
- Community Obligation for Orphans, Responsum of R. Meshullam ben Kalonymous
- Claims of Superior Jewish Social Services, Joseph Kimhi, Sefer Ha-Berit
- Education, Responsum of R. Gershom
- Claims of Superior Jewish Education, Joseph Kimhi, Sefer Ha-Berit
- Introduction to Primary Jewish Education, Sefer ha-Rokeah
- Introduction to Primary Jewish Education, Sefer Hasidim
- Education Regulations, Castile 1432 Communal Ordinance
- Secondary Literature
- Y. Assis, The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry- Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327, 237-296.
- Ivan Marcus, Rituals of Childhood (New Haven- Yale University Press, 1998).
- E. Kanarfogel, Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages (Detroit- Wayne State University Press, 1992).
- A. Grossman, Pious and Rebellious- Jewish Women in Medieval Europe, trans. J. Chipman (Waltham- Brandeis University Press, 2004).
- E. Baumgarten, Mothers and Children- Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton- Princeton University Press, 2004).
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