Jewish women in historical perspective
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Jewish women in historical perspective
Wayne State University Press, c1998
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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; Jewish women in the Middle Ages; Sephardi women in the medievil and early modern periods; Italian Jewish women; prayers in Yiddish and the religious world of Ashkenazic women; gender and the immigrant Jewish experience in the United States.
Table of Contents
- Portrayals of Women in the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch
- Jewish Women in the Diaspora World of Late Antiquity, Ross S. Kraemer
- The Image and Status of Women in Classical Rabbinic Judaism, Judith Romney Wegner
- Jewish Women in the Middle Ages, Judith R. Baskin
- Sephardi Women in the Mediaeval and Early Modern Periods, Renee Levine Melammed
- Italian Jewish Women, Howard Adelman
- Prayers in Yiddish and the Religious World of Ashkenazic Women, Chava Weissler
- Emancipation Through Intermarriage? Wealthy Jewish Salon Women in Old Berlin, Deborah Hertz
- Engendering Liberal Jews - Jewish Women in Victorian England, Michael Galchinsky
- Tradition and Transition - Jewish Women in Imperial Germany, Marion A. Kaplan
- The Women Teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1872-1940, Frances Malino
- East European Jewish Women in an Age of Transition, 1880-1930, Paula E. Hyman
- Daughters of the Nation - Between the Public and Private Spheres in Pre-State Israel, Deborah S. Bernstein
- Gender and the Immigrant Jewish Experience in the United States, Paula E. Hyman
- Spiritual Expressions - Jewish Women's Religious Lives in the United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ellen M. Umansky.
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