Marjorie Lehman is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Jane L. Kanarek is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Associate Dean of Academic Development and Advising at Hebrew College. Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is also the convener of the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. His books include Folklore: The Basics (2017) and Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture (2011).

• Note on TransliterationIntroduction: Reimagining Jewish MothersMarjorie Lehman, Jane L. Kanarek, and Simon J. BronnerPART I . IDEALIZED MOTHERS1 Cooking, Cuddling, and Candle-Lighting: Motherhood in Award-Winning Jewish Children’s LiteratureEmily Sigalow2 The Jewish Mother’s Prayer: Mothers in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Jewish Women’s Prayer BooksKrisztina Frauhammer3 Nene Mesl-e Na¯n—‘Mother is Like Bread’: The Perception of Motherhood and Folklore Expressions among the Jews of AfghanistanTsila Zan-Bar Tsur4 Mothers and Children in Ottoman Jewish Society as Reflected in Hebrew Sources of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth CenturiesRuth LamdanPART II . CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONTESTATIONS OF MOTHERS5 Like Mother Like Daughter: Mother–Daughter Relations in Babylonian Talmudic StoriesMoshe Lavee6 The (Re)production of a Maskilah: The Mother–Daughter Bond between Menuhah and Hava ShapiroCarole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler7 Maurice Sendak’s Jewish Mother(s)Jodi Eichler-Levine8 The Jewish Mother as Metonym for Community in Postwar AmericaJosh LambertPART III . ACTIVIST MOTHERS9 The ‘Mothers’ Who Were Not: Motherhood Imagery and Childless Women Warriors in Early Jewish LiteratureCaryn Tamber-Rosenau10 Motherhood as Motivation: American Jewish Women in Action, 1890–1940Melissa R. Klapper11 ‘Two Voices Heard in Castile’: Rachel and Mary Weep for Their Children in the Age of the ZoharSharon Koren12 ‘Where Was Sarah?’ Depictions of Mothers and Motherhood in Modern Israeli Poetry on the Binding of IsaacDalia MarxPART IV . RE-EMBODYING MOTHERS13 Depictions of Childbirth in Rabbinic Literature: The Innovation of a Genizah Midrashic TextShana Strauch Schick14 Upending the Curse of Eve: A Reframing of Maternal Breastfeeding in BT KetubotMiriam-Simma Walfish15 The Biblical Root ’mn: Retrieval of a Term and Its Household ContextDeena AranoffPART V . RECASTING MOTHERS16 Mothers and Ma’asim: Maternal Roles in Medieval Hebrew TalesElisheva Baumgarten17 On Teachers, Rabbinic and MaternalMara H. BenjaminContributorsIndex