Editor for the English edition
Siân Reynolds

The English version of this issue is published thanks to the support of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle

Editors for this issue:
Fabio GIOMI & Ece ZERMAN with Rebecca ROGERS

Editor for the English online edition:
Siân REYNOLDS

The English version of this issue is published thanks to the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

From Egypt under the Fatimid Caliphate to medieval Germany, from the Iberian peninsula to the Ottoman Empire, from Tsarist Russia to contemporary Ethiopia, from New York to Berlin or Paris, this issue of Clio FGH constitutes an itinerary through the history of Judaism in relation to gender. The “Jewish religious tradition” assigns entirely different roles, obligations and rights to women and men. The Scriptures and their interpretations, everyday actions and ritual feasts, as well as customs and Rabbinic law (halakha) all combine to produce a number of rules, concepts and representations of relations between the sexes. But this tradition has also developed within multiple historical context, allowing room to be created for evolution, influences and challenges: it is this diversity of “gender arrangements” within Judaism that is restored to prominence in this issue.

Editors for this issue:
Leora AUSLANDER & Sylvie STEINBERG

Editor for the English online edition:
Siân REYNOLDS