Jewish and a Woman - in GERMAN

• What significance is attributed to women in traditional Judaism?
  
• Which mitzvot – the Hebrew term for commandments – are specifically addressed to them?
  

A central focus is also the work Zeena u-Reena, written in the 16th century and widely read over generations. Another emphasis is placed on the period of the Enlightenment: while in the 18th and early 19th centuries ideas of equality and emancipation largely benefited men, Jewish women played a key role in the emergence of a bourgeois public sphere – not least through salon culture, in which they created intellectual spaces as hosts. 

The tour traces how Jewish women understood, negotiated, and lived their roles in different historical periods – between religious commitment and participation in society.


IN GERMAN