Women and common folk in medieval Jewish calendar texts - Sacha Stern

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'Women and common folk in medieval Jewish calendar texts' - Professor Sacha Stern, UCL. Part of the Workshop 'Science versus popular culture in medieval Jewish society' on 9 November 2015, organised by the ERC Calendars Project at the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/research-pro/calendars-antiquity-middle-ages The dates of the Jewish calendar can only be determined through a complex calculation, which ordinary people in medieval Jewish society would have had much trouble with. How did they find out the dates of new moons and festivals? What did they do if the information was not available?

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