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Edward Fram

Edward Fram is a senior lecturer in the department of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His major area of interest is the history of Jewish culture in eastern Europe in the pre-modern age, with a focus on the history of Jewish law and how it was adapted to face new situations.

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Seder Mitzvot Nashim

Seder Mitzvot Nashim refers to the genre of literature in Ashkenazic and Italian communities that explained the specifics of how women should observe the commandments that were particularly associated with them. This handbook was reprinted many times, most famously by Rabbi Benjamin Aron Slonik, whose 1585 version of Seder Mitzvot Nashim was a veritable best seller of the pre-modern age.