Author: Rebecca Lynn WinerPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814346324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.
Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
Author: Rebecca Lynn WinerPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814346324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.
Some Jewish Women in Antiquity
Author: Meir Bar-IlanPublisher: Neusner Titles in Brown Judaic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Sets out to characterize different types of Jewish women in Eretz- Israel over a period of more than a thousand years, from the biblical period to the time of the Mishna and Talmud, drawing on various biblical and talmudic texts. Contains chapters on heroines, women's literacy, keening women, prayers said by women, sorceresses, and prostitutes. Each chapter presents literary sources in chronological order, followed by discussion of social aspects of historical facts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jewish Women in Historical Perspective
Author: Judith Reesa BaskinPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.
Some Jewish Women in Antiquity
Author: Meir Bar-IlanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781946527639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women of the Word
Author: Judith Reesa BaskinPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.
Rebecca Gratz
Author: Dianne AshtonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814341012
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. Perhaps the best-known member of the prominent Gratz family of Philadelphia, she was a fervent patriot, a profoundly religious woman, and a widely known activist for poor women. She devoted her life to confronting and resolving the personal challenges she faced as a Jew and as a female member of a prosperous family. In using hundreds of Gratz's own letters in her research, Dianne Ashton reveals Gratz's own blend of Jewish and American values and explores the significance of her work. Informed by her American and Jewish ideas, values, and attitudes, Gratz created and managed a variety of municipal and Jewish institutions for charity and education, including America's first independent Jewish women's charitable society, the first Jewish Sunday school, and the first American Jewish foster home. Through her commitment to establishing charitable resources for women, promoting Judaism in a Christian society, and advancing women's roles in Jewish life, Gratz shaped a Jewish arm of what has been called America's largely Protestant "benevolent empire." Influenced by the religious and political transformations taking place nationally and locally, Gratz matured into a social visionary whose dreams for American Jewish life far surpassed the realities she saw around her. She believed that Judaism was advanced by the founding of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society and the Hebrew Sunday School because they offered religious education to thousands of children and leadership opportunities to Jewish women. Gratz's organizations worked with an inclusive definition of Jewishness that encompassed all Philadelphia Jews at a time when differences in national origin, worship style, and religious philosophy divided them. Legend has it that Gratz was the prototype for the heroine Rebecca of York in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, the Jewish woman who refused to wed the Christian hero of the tale out of loyalty to her faith and father. That legend has draped Gratz's life in sentimentality and has blurred our vision of her. Rebecca Gratz is the first book to examine Gratz's life, her legend, and our memory.
American Jewish Women's History
Author: Pamela S. NadellPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081475807X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
“It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,“Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles. American Jewish Women’s History, an anthology covering colonial times to the present, illuminates that historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbors. It ranges from Rebecca Gratz’s development of the Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1838 to protest the rising prices of kosher meat at the turn of the century, to the shaping of southern Jewish women's cultural identity through food. There is currently no other reader conveying the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women available. The reader is divided into four sections complete with detailed introductions. The contributors include: Joyce Antler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Paula E. Hyman, Riv-Ellen Prell, and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Nahida Remy's the Jewish Woman
Author: Frau Nahida Anna Maris Ruth (Remy) LazarusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages :
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Defining Jewish Difference
Author: Beth A. BerkowitzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013712
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Berkowitz shows that interpretation of Leviticus 18:3 provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity.
History of Jewish Women in Late Antiquity
Author: Ṭal IlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description