2 juin 2022
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Andreas Lehnertz, « New Book by Eyal Levinson: ויגדלו הנערים: מגדר ומיניות באשכנז בימי הביניים (Gender and Sexuality in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages) », medievalJewishStudiesNow!, ID : 10.58079/rhoj
(English/עברית) This book examines youth culture in Ashkenaz, mainly in northern France and Germany, during the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, within the context of mainstream Christian majority culture. By examining adolescence and youth culture in medieval Ashkenaz and the values that shaped the Jewish young men’s gendered identities, this book is an initial attempt to fill a lacuna that the historian Michael Satlow recently pointed at, the absence of critical studies on medieval Jewis...