Mother's milk : essays on child-rearing, the household, and the making of Jewish culture / Deena Aranoff.

Author/creator Aranoff, Deena author.
Format Book
PublicationBloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxii, 153 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesNew Jewish philosophy and thought
New Jewish philosophy and thought. ^A1325831
Abstract "This book engages with an age-old question: What accounts for the persistence of Jewish culture through the ages? Despite significant variations, how were Jewish cultural elements sustained over millennia? Mother's Milk: Essays on Child-Rearing, the Household, and the Making of Jewish Culture expresses the idea that a stage of the human experience is excluded from Jewish culture that includes the earliest phases of child-rearing in household context. Author Deena Aranoff argues that the inclusion of child-rearing would help strengthen the idea that Jewish cultural production is not restricted to the channels of rabbinic and literary activity alone. Mother's Milk expresses how Jewish practices, including rabbinic halakhah, are derived from household custom and maternal care in particular. Aranoff encourages us to revise the genealogy of Jewish culture to allow for dialectical interplay between everyday life and formal Jewish practice"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Aranoff, Deena. Mother's milk Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2025 9780253073730
LCCN 2025001507
ISBN9780253073716
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