Shulamit and Margarete: Power, Gender, and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Ulbrich, Claudia

ISBN 10: 0391042270 / ISBN 13: 9780391042278

Published by Brill, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shulamit and Margarete: Power, Gender, and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0391042270
• ISBN 13: 9780391042278
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Shulamit and Margarete takes a microhistorical look at a small village on the border of Germany and France in the eighteenth century. Drawing on the rich source material of the village, it casts a searching light on the boundaries created by language, states, religions, cultures, sex, and gender. By writing the history of the village from multiple perspectives, the author is able to uncover fascinating artefacts of a cultural contact between Christians and Jews, and to gain insights into the agency and experiences of women in rural society. The book is enhanced by a variety of sources and illustrations relating to Jewish history, such as the last will of Abraham Levy and the previously unknown portraits of Fromette Levy and Bernard Lipmann.

About the Author

Claudia Ulbrich, Dr. phil. (1977) University of Saarbrücken, is Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. She has published extensively on the history of rural societies in the early modern period and on gender history. She is co-editor of L'Homme. Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft.