Tag: Jewish Law

by Sandra Alvarez January 16, 2014

Menstruation in Sacred Places. Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish Women in the Synagogue

How sacred is the Synagogue? Can a woman enter this holy place while menstruating? What is more sacred: the space, or the Holy objects within it?

by Medievalists.net June 12, 2011

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The Inquisitor and the Jewish Mother: The Role of Food in Creation of Converso Identity in Inquisition Spain

Peppered with a great deal of wit and humor, Don Quixote is a unique portrait of the cultural, social and political landscape of Spain at the turn of the seventeenth century.