<b>This month of learning is sponsored by our dear friends Matt and Mollie Landes of Riverdale for the neshama of Dovid Yehonatan ben Yitzchak Yehuda.</b><br /><b></b><br />In this episode of the <i>18Forty Podcast</i>, we speak with Professors Elisheva Carlebach and Debra Kaplan, scholars of early modern Jewish history, about women’s religious, social, and communal roles in early modern Jewish life.<br /><br />In this episode we discuss:<br /><ul><li>How have women’s prayer and shul-going habits changed over time? </li><li>When did the women’s chevra kadisha become a Jewish institution? </li><li>How did Jewish emancipation alter the structure of Jewish life and its implications for women? </li></ul>Tune in for a conversation about how women shaped—and were shaped by—the structures of the early modern <i>kehillah</i>.<br /><b></b><br />Interview begins at 9:13.<br /><br />Elisheva Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University and Director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. A specialist in Early Modern European Jewish history, her work explores Jewish–Christian relations, religious dissent, conversion, messianism, and communal life. She is the award-winning author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Heresy-Elisheva-Carlebach-1990-10-15/dp/B01FIZE4E4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pursuit of Heresy, Divided Souls, and Palaces of Time</a></i>, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and honors including Columbia’s Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.<br /><b></b><br />Debra Kaplan teaches early modern Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. A social historian, she is the author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Expulsion-Christians-Reformation-Strasbourg/dp/0804774420" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beyond Expulsion</a></i> (2011) and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Patrons-Their-Poor-Community-Contexts/dp/081225239X" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Patrons and their Poor</a> </i>(University of Pennsylvania 2020; winner of the Rosl und Paul Arnsberg-Preis).<br /><b></b><br /><b>References:</b><br /><b></b><br />“<a href="https://lilith.org/articles/fall-1976-35/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Notes Toward Finding the Right Question</a>” by Cynthia Ozick<br /><br /><i><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691268613/a-woman-is-responsible-for-everything?srsltid=AfmBOoqXXY2smNh9t3qxwTdHVgABMPo_knz0w1cBdfa6-M6rkTPdUq3z" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe</a></i> by Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach<br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Messianic-Sabbatai-1666-1816-Littman-Civilization/dp/1906764808" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><i>Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816</i></a> by Ada Rapoport-Albert<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Children-Medieval-Christians-Muslims/dp/0691130299" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe</a></i> by Elisheva Baumgarten<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Age-Medieval-Egypt-Adolescence/dp/0691174989" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture</a></i> by Eve Krakowski<br /><b></b><br /><b>For more 18Forty:</b><br />NEWSLETTER: <a href="http://18forty.org/join" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">18forty.org/join</a><br />CALL: (212) 582-1840<br />EMAIL: [email protected]<br />WEBSITE:<a href="http://18forty.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> 18forty.org</a><br />IG: @18fortyX: @18_forty<br />WhatsApp:<a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/JmShFj7nnSZJqTLLZYNfLJ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> join here</a><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18forty-podcast--4344730/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18forty-podcast--4344730/support</a>.