Jewish women in historical perspective

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Jewish women in historical perspective

edited by Judith R. Baskin

Wayne State University Press, c1998

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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