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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T201500
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URL:https://www.wjcouncil.org/events/yinr-womens-initiative-for-jewish-stu
 dies-to-bring-dr-sarah-ifft-decker-via-zoom/
SUMMARY:YINR - Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Sarah I
 fft-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 offe
 red by WIJS at YINR.\n\nDr. Ifft-Decker will speak on the topic “Fightin
 g with Contracts: Jewish Women’s Weaponization of Christian Legal Cultur
 e in the Late Medieval Mediterranean.”  Medieval Jewish women were dise
 mpowered in the legal systems of both their own community and the Christia
 n majority. Yet they were not passive victims\; Jewish women in the late m
 edieval Mediterranean used the Christian legal system to secure their asse
 ts. Jewish men also turned to Christian legal culture to protect their wiv
 es and daughters. Often\, the battles that took place on the pages of Lati
 n contracts\, drawn up by Christian legal professionals\, were fought betw
 een Jews. This talk draws on case studies related to Jewish inheritance\, 
 marriage\, and divorce\, found in the archives of Spain\, Italy\, and Sout
 hern France\, to explore how Jewish women used Christian contracts to figh
 t their legal battles.\n\nDr. Sarah Ifft Decker is Assistant Professor of 
 History at Rhodes College. She received her BA from Swarthmore College\, h
 er MA in Medieval Jewish Studies from The Jewish Theological Seminary\, an
 d her PhD in History from Yale University. Her work focuses on intersectio
 ns between gender and religious difference in the late medieval Mediterran
 ean. 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\, 2
 022).\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to women and men.  Please visit ht
 tps://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.  Indivi
 duals on the WIJS mailing list will automatically receive the Zoom informa
 tion.
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