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SUMMARY:YINR - Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Sarah
 Ifft-Decker via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel
 of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Sarah Ifft-Decker on Wednesday\,
 November 6\, 2024 @ 8:15 pm (ET) on Zoom.  Ifft-Decker will be the second
 speaker of the 2024-2025 season in the monthly scholarly programming
 offered by WIJS at YINR.\n\nDr. Ifft-Decker will speak on the topic
 “Fighting with Contracts: Jewish Women’s Weaponization of Christian
 Legal Culture in the Late Medieval Mediterranean.”  Medieval Jewish
 women were disempowered in the legal systems of both their own community
 and the Christian majority. Yet they were not passive victims\; Jewish
 women in the late medieval Mediterranean used the Christian legal system to
 secure their assets. Jewish men also turned to Christian legal culture to
 protect their wives and daughters. Often\, the battles that took place on
 the pages of Latin contracts\, drawn up by Christian legal professionals\,
 were fought between Jews. This talk draws on case studies related to Jewish
 inheritance\, marriage\, and divorce\, found in the archives of Spain\,
 Italy\, and Southern France\, to explore how Jewish women used Christian
 contracts to fight their legal battles.\n\nDr. Sarah Ifft Decker is
 Assistant Professor of History at Rhodes College. She received her BA from
 Swarthmore College\, her MA in Medieval Jewish Studies from The Jewish
 Theological Seminary\, and her PhD in History from Yale University. Her
 work focuses on intersections between gender and religious difference in
 the late medieval Mediterranean. She is the author of Jewish Women in the
 Medieval World\, 500-1500 (Routledge\, 2022) and of The Fruit of Her
 Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities (Penn
 State University Press\, 2022).\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to women
 and men.  Please visit https://www.yinr.org/wijs.html to view the
 complete WIJS 2024-25 schedule.  For more information\, to be added to the
 WIJS email list\, or for Zoom information\, please call 914-636-2215 or
 email: wijs@yinr.org.  Individuals on the WIJS mailing list will
 automatically receive the Zoom information.
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