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'Whether a woman is a virgin depends on whom you ask': How virginity became a measure of women's worth in medieval Jewish culture

Israeli scholar Avital Davidovich Eshed traces how virginity became bound up with marriage, money and family honor – and why its meaning was always a matter of interpretation

'Whether a woman is a virgin depends on whom you ask': How virginity became a measure of women's worth in medieval Jewish culture

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