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Author : Adrienne Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814712115
Reflectson and Listens to Jewish Womenin The U.S. and Great Britianin all their differenct contexts, religious and wordly, and asks, what does it mean to be a Jewish woman today?
Author : A. Baker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230375819
Across the religious/non-religious spectrum, Jewish women have been affected by the women's movement, the impact on some leading to a reassessment of the woman's role in Judaism, with its emphasis on family and home. Conversely, a small but significant minority have withdrawn into the safety of extreme Orthodoxy. In the centre, the majority are seeking a balance between the powerful internalized message of Judaism, extolling marriage and motherhood as woman's primary concern, and a changing perception of themselves.
Author : Kalpana Misra
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1584653256
A dynamic and authentic representation of feminism in Israel, by some of its leading exponents and activists.
Author : Rebecca Lynn Winer,Federica Francesconi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814346327
A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.
Author : Paula E. Hyman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806822
Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted “the Jews” as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between 1850 and 1950, she retrieves the experience of women as reflected in their writings--memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, and texts of speeches--and finds that Jewish women’s patterns of assimilation differed from men’s and that an examination of those differences exposes the tensions inherent in the project of Jewish assimilation. Patterns of assimilation varied not only between men and women but also according to geographical locale and social class. Germany, France, England, and the United States offered some degree of civic equality to their Jewish populations, and by the last third of the nineteenth century, their relatively small Jewish communities were generally defined by their middle-class characteristics. In contrast, the eastern European nations contained relatively large and overwhelmingly non-middle-class Jewish population. Hyman considers how these differences between East and West influenced gender norms, which in turn shaped Jewish women’s responses to the changing conditions of the modern world, and how they merged in the large communities of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States. The book concludes with an exploration of the sexual politics of Jewish identity. Hyman argues that the frustration of Jewish men at their “feminization” in societies in which they had achieved political equality and economic success was manifested in their criticism of, and distancing from, Jewish women. The book integrates a wide range of primary and secondary sources to incorporate Jewish women’s history into one of the salient themes in modern Jewish history, that of assimilation. The book is addressed to a wide audience: those with an interest in modern Jewish history, in women’s history, and in ethnic studies and all who are concerned with the experience and identity of Jews in the modern world.
Author : Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet,Beth S. Wenger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479801275
This book addresses a range of topics, including gendered readings of texts, legal issues in marriage and divorce, ritual practices, and women's literary expressions , along with feminist influences within the Muslim and Jewish communities and issues affecting Jewish and Muslim women in contemporary society.The volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences. At a time when Judaism and Islam are often discussed as though they were inherently at odds, this book offers a reconsideration of the connections between these two traditions.
Author : Jonathan Frankel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195349776
Volume XVI in this well-received annual series contains an up-to-date survey of gender issues in modern Judaism. It includes original essays on Orthodox Judaism and feminism, American Jewish women, female rabbis, the impact of feminism on rabbinic study, masculinity, Jewish women in the Third Reich, and gender and military service.
Author : Michael Galchinsky
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344453
Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.
Author : Lynn Davidman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520911574
The past two decades in the United States have seen an immense liberalization and expansion of women's roles in society. Recently, however, some women have turned away from the myriad, complex choices presented by modern life and chosen instead a Jewish orthodox tradition that sets strict and rigid guidelines for women to follow. Lynn Davidman followed the conversion to Orthodoxy of a group of young, secular Jewish women to gain insight into their motives. Living first with a Hasidic community in St. Paul, Minnesota, and then joining an Orthodox synagogue on the upper west side of Manhattan, Davidman pieced together a picture of disparate lives and personal dilemmas. As a participant observer in their religious resocialization and in interviews and conversations with over one hundred women, Davidman also sought a new perspective on the religious institutions that reach out to these women and usher them into the community of Orthodox Judaism. Through vivid and detailed personal portraits, Tradition in a Rootless World explores women's place not only in religious institutions but in contemporary society as a whole. It is a perceptive contribution that unites the study of religion, sociology, and women's studies.
Author : Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0874517060
A vigorous portrayal of the effects of a distinct form of feminism on the spiritual and secular lives of Jewish women.
Author : Frederick E. Greenspahn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814732182
"Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate Jewish women's domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life from biblical times to the present. Yet little of this important work filters down beyond specialists in their respective academic fields. Women and Judaism brings the broad new insights they have uncovered to the world, presenting their work in an accessible and engaging way. Key senior scholars discuss women's approaches to Jewish law and Torah study, the spirituality of Eastern European Jewish women, Jewish women in American literature, and many other issues."--Back of book.
Author : Blu Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015020745074
A classic for nearly 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.
Author : Alina Polyak
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638811989
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Cross-cultural translation, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this paper I would like to explore how the Jewish tradition is represented in modern Jewish American feminist women's fiction. I chose as examples Marge Piercy's novel "He, She and It" and Cynthia Ozick's story " Putermesser and Xanthippe" from "The Putermesser Papers". The attitude towards Judaism has changed significantly since the beginning of immigrant women's writing at the threshold of the 20th century when writers like Anzia Yezierska or Mary Antin began new lives in the New World. In order to enter the American society and become successful they seemed to have no choice but to completely shed their Jewish roots, get rid of their Yiddish accent (at least in writing) and also part with the Jewish way of thinking. Especially as women, they received unheard-of opportunities in the New World; they wanted to become American as quickly as possible and the new identity required getting rid of the old. Judaism was out of fashion not only in literature but in general - according to Hasja Diner, in the late 1920's, 80 percent of young Jews living in New York had no knowledge of Hebrew letters and no religious training. (344). Beginning with the second half of the 20th century till today the development seems to go in the direction of embracing one's heritage.
Author : Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580236508
Jewish Feminism: What Have We Accomplished? What Is Still to Be Done? “When you are in the middle of the revolution you can’t really plan the next steps ahead. But now we can. The book is intended to open up a dialogue between the early Jewish feminist pioneers and the young women shaping Judaism today.... Read it, use it, debate it, ponder it.” —from the Introduction This empowering anthology looks at the growth and accomplishments of Jewish feminism and what that means for Jewish women today and tomorrow. It features the voices of women from every area of Jewish life—the Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Orthodox and Jewish Renewal movements; rabbis, congregational leaders, artists, writers, community service professionals, academics, and chaplains, from the United States, Canada, and Israel—addressing the important issues that concern Jewish women: Women and Theology Women, Ritual and Torah Women and the Synagogue Women in Israel Gender, Sexuality and Age Women and the Denominations Leadership and Social Justice
Author : Debby Flancbaum
Publisher : Urim Publications
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789655241815
The women profiled in this collection of absorbing essays—some known throughout the world, others known only within their own communities—all share one key trait: whether religious or secular, they are driven by their commitment to Judaism to engage in acts of kindness. In profiling women such as Ruth Gruber, who helped hundreds of Jewish refugees escape from war-torn Europe, or Wendy Kay, who regularly invites teenagers to her home for Shabbat, The Jewish Woman Next Door provides contemporary role models that readers will admire and be able to emulate.