Reading Jewish women : marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society

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    • Parush, Iris

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Reading Jewish women : marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society

Iris Parush ; translated by Saadya Sternberg

(Brandeis series on Jewish women)(The Tauber Institute for the study of European Jewry series)

Brandeis University Press , University Press of New England, c2004

  • pbk. : alk. paper

Other Title

Nashim korot : Ytronah Shel Shuliyut

Uniform Title

Nashim ḳorʾot

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Originally published in Hebrew as "Nashim korot : Ytronah Shel Shuliyut" by Am Oved Publishers Ltd., Tel Aviv, 2001

Contents of Works

  • Reading women and the spirit of Jewish enlightenment
  • Language, literacy, and literature as the battleground of haredim and maskilim
  • Gender roles and women's "window of opportunity"
  • The benefit of marginality: gender differences in the traditional educational system
  • "A woman prides herself on cooing and prattling in French and German": the secular education of women
  • The reading-biography of men
  • "This whole trouble is the fault of the little story books": women who read Yiddish
  • "A Hebrew maiden, yet acting alien": Women who read European languages
  • "One in a thousand": women and the Hebrew language
  • Hebrew :man's apparatus or woman's apparel?

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