Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination

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Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination is written by Marjorie Lehman and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1786948532 (ISBN 10) and 9781786948533 (ISBN 13).

Most Jews will feel intimately familiar with and attached to the figure of the ‘Jewish mother’, yet few have questioned representations of mothers and motherhood in Jewish culture. This volume aims to fill this gap by bringing to the fore the vast network of symbols and images which Jews have associated with mothers from the Bible to the modern period. It demonstrates the complex ways in which the Jewish mother has been used to construct and frame Jewish religion and culture.