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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the English Edition -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Approaches: The Village -- CHAPTER THREE Searching for Clues: Spheres of Female Agency in the Mirror of Biography -- CHAPTER FOUR Contexts: Outlines of a Village Society -- CHAPTER FIVE A Shift in Perspective: The History of the Jewish Community -- CHAPTER SIX "Woman-She is the House": Glimpses of Jewish Women's Lives -- CHAPTER SEVEN From the Margin to the Center: Christian-Jewish Relations -- CHAPTER EIGHT Concluding Reflections -- Appendix: Last Will of Abraham Jacob -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.

The book tells the life stories of women who lived in the eighteenth century in a Christian-Jewish village on the border of Germany and France. This microhistorical approach allows the author to uncover fascinating artefacts of a cultural contact between Christians and Jews that was part of a social order based on pluralism and diversity.