Jewish Women's Role and Cultural Practices: A Historical Overview, Quizzes of Judaic Studies

Download Jewish Women's Role and Cultural Practices: A Historical Overview and more Quizzes Judaic Studies in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Mokh DEFINITION 1 A contraceptive device used by Jewish women dating back to rabbinic times TERM 2 Tkhines DEFINITION 2 These are supplications-personal private prayers usually written in Yiddish for use by Jewish women in the 17th and 18th centuries, at first most of these prayers were thought to have been written by men; reflecting womens concerns and rituals. These supplications were to be used in the privacy of their own homes at times convenient for them TERM 3 Firgozerin DEFINITION 3 In the early modern period, a learned woman who lead the womens section of the synagogue in ritual and prayer, often tkihines TERM 4 Tsenerena DEFINITION 4 This was called the womens Bible, it contained homilies on the Torah portion of the week, recited in the Womens section of the synagogue; first published around 1600 TERM 5 Haskalah DEFINITION 5 the Jewish Enlightenment, which emerged in Europe in the early 19th Century TERM 6 Maskilm DEFINITION 6 Jewish adherents of the Haskalah TERM 7 Shtetl DEFINITION 7 a type of village in Europe where Jews lived in the 17th to 19th centuries TERM 8 Yiddish DEFINITION 8 this was the language of the Jews communities in the Diaspora; most common version of Yiddish was that spoken in Germany, Poland, and Russia, which was a combination of Hebrew and German. TERM 9 Mehitzah DEFINITION 9 the separation barrier erected in Orthodox synagogues to separate the mens and womens sections of the sanctuary TERM 10 Kaddish DEFINITION 10 Prayer said in memory of the dead during periods of mourning and on the anniversary of death