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Five Polemics Concerning Women
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Enough, you fools and idiots, enough! Why do you come to me with sage advice? Are you still infants? Are you soiling still Your diapers and sheets with excrement…

Contributor:

Jacob Frances

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Women, Sexism, Life cycle, Torah study, Humor, Poetry

Categories:

Popular Poetry, Poetry
Drawing of woman in profile wearing dress and hat and Hebrew writing on her left.
Magid mesharim (Speaker of Truth): Lessons from the Magid
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…

Contributor:

Joseph Karo

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1530s

Subjects:

Mysticism, Conversion, Women, Oral Torah, Torah study, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography