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Closing the Gap between the Ideal and the Actual: Elegies and Prayer, a Geniza Study

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dc.contributor.advisorVidas, Moulie
dc.contributor.authorSklar , Elitsa Mairav Reinglass
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-29T19:33:46Z
dc.date.available2025-07-29T19:33:46Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-04
dc.description.abstractThis thesis discusses documents from the Cairo Geniza. It explores Jewish Women's Religious lives through an analysis of both literary and documentary Geniza sources. The thesis has two sections. First, the thesis explores elegies. Second, the thesis explores prayer. The thesis argues that women's personal religiosity significant to society at large through the trade system. This scholarship challenges previous notions of female participation in society and modes of scholarly analysis. The appendix the scholar's own transcriptions and translations of primary sources of both Hebrew and Judeo Arabic.
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01qb98mj91j
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleClosing the Gap between the Ideal and the Actual: Elegies and Prayer, a Geniza Study
dc.typePrinceton University Senior Theses
dspace.entity.typePublication
dspace.workflow.startDateTime2025-05-05T02:52:52.276Z
pu.contributor.authorid920246302
pu.date.classyear2025
pu.departmentReligion
pu.minorJudaic Studies
pu.minorNear Eastern Studies
pu.minorMedieval Studies
pu.minorHebrew Language

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