TY - JOUR
TI - Women Protagonists in the Hebrew Morality CompositionTzemach Tzadiq by Leon Modena 
AU - Tohar, Vered
TI - Women Protagonists in the Hebrew Morality CompositionTzemach Tzadiq by Leon Modena 
AB - 
	This article proposes a reading of three stories from the Hebrew morality book Tzemach Tzadiq [The Righteous Shoot], composed by Leon Modena (1571-1648) and based upon the 13th century Italian treatise Fiore di Virtu [The Flowers of the Virtues]. These stories, which present plots with female protagonists, demonstrate women’s mystique in this early Modern Hebrew compilation and reveal the attitude of Modena and his readership towards women who deviated from the norm. Although Tzemach Tzadiq is a hegemonic patriarchal text, it reveals an intra-gender relationship where these female protagonists protest against their social inferiority by means of self-violence.
VL - 2017
IS - Volume 15
PY - 2018
SN - 1733-5760
C1 - 2084-3925
SP - 47
EP - 61
DO - 10.4467/20843925SJ.17.003.8172
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/article/women-protagonists-in-the-hebrew-morality-composition-zemach-tzadiq-by-leon-modena
KW - Leon Modena
KW - The Hebrew story
KW - morality literature
KW - Jewish literature
KW - Jewish folklore
KW - gender studies