Moshe Rosman
A Short History Of Jewish Gender
Lecture 5: Well-Behaved Women Undermining Jewish Gender II: Glikl Hamel As A Model Jewish Grandmother?
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12 p.m. EDT
Zoom Webinar (Details will be provided in confirmation email after registering for the event)
Glikl Hamel is one of the rare female voices from the premodern era thanks to the memoirs she began writing in 1691. In this lecture, Moshe Rosman will offer a new interpretation of Glikl as conventional in appearance yet subtly feminist and somewhat ambivalent about Jewish society in her day.
Respondent: Ruth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina
Ruth von Bernuth is the Seymour & Carol Levin Distinguished Term Professor and the Director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the late medieval/early modern period—or the 15th to the 18th centuries—with a special emphasis on the 16th century. She is the author of Wunder, Spott und Prophetie: Natürliche Narrheit in den Historien von Claus Narren (Niemeyer, 2009), How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition (NYU Press, 2016), and (with Julia Weitbrecht and Werner Röcke) Zwischen Ereignis und Erzählung: Konversion als Medium der Selbstbeschreibung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (de Gruyter, 2016).
Moshe Rosman is a Professor Emeritus of Jewish History from Bar Ilan University. He is the author of several groundbreaking and award-winning books The Lords' Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth During the Eighteenth Century (Harvard, 1990), Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov (California, 1996), How Jewish Is Jewish History? (Littman, 2007). Moshe Rosman is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award, The Zalman Shazar Prize and the Jerzy Milewski Award. His research interests include Polish-Jewish history, Jewish gender history, historiography and Hasidism.
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