Gender and Jewish history

Author(s)

• Kaplan, Marion A.
• Moore, Deborah Dash

Bibliographic Information

Gender and Jewish history

edited by Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore

（The modern Jewish experience）

Indiana University Press, c2011

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-387) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780253222633

Description

By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past, this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Gender and Jewish History considers the impact of gender on Jewish religious practices and political behavior, educational accomplishments and communal structures, acculturation and choice of occupations. The book stimulates conversations on such topics as Jewish women's creativity and spirituality, violence against women, Jews' reactions to persecution in the Holocaust, and Judaism as lived religion and culture. Honoring Paula Hyman, one of the founders of Jewish gender studies, this volume shows gender to be an eye-opening entry into realms of Jewish history previously untouched by it.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction / Deborah Dash Moore and Marion A. Kaplan Part 1. Women's Culture in Modern Jewish History 1. How Does a Woman Write? Or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own / Shulamit S. Magnus 2. Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship / Ismar Schorsch 3. Jews, Women, and Coffee in Early Modern Germany / Robert Liberles 4. Water into Blood: Custom, Calendar, and an Unknown Yiddish Book for Women / Elisheva Carlebach 5. "The Murdered Hebrew Maidservant of East New York": Gender, Class, and the Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin 6. Jewish Courtship and Marriage in 1920s Vienna / Marsha L. Rozenblit 7. "Did you bring any girls?" Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosua, the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945 / Marion A. Kaplan 8. The Contribution of Gender to the Study of the Holocaust / Dalia Ofer Part 2. Gendered Dimensions of Religious Change 9. Women in the Thought and Practice of the European Jewish Reform Movement / Michael A. Meyer 10. German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women: The Views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer / David Ellenson 11. Gender and Conversion Revisited / Todd M. Endelman 12. The Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times / ChaeRan Y. Freeze 13. Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan / Anne Lapidus Lerner 14. Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodiment, and Women in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods / Chava Weissler 15. Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought / Claire E. Sufrin Part 3. Jewish Politics in American Accents 16. "The Call to Action": Margaret Sanger, the Brownsville Jewish Women, and Political Activism / Judith Rosenbaum 17. "Too Good to Have Been Made by a Woman": American Jewish Women Artists as Political Activists from the 1920s to the 1940s / Lauren B. Strauss 18. Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras / Deborah Dash Moore 19. Assembling Eichmann's Shackles / Deborah E. Lipstadt 20. Golda and the Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and the Personas They Denied / Michael Scott Alexander 21. Gendered Journeys: Jewish Migrations and the City in Postwar America / Lila Corwin Berman 22. Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture / Beth S. Wenger Afterword: An Emancipating Experience: The Jews of France in Paula Hyman's Oeuvre / Richard I. Cohen Bibliography of Paula Hyman's Works List of Contributors Index

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780253355614

Description

By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past, this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Gender and Jewish History considers the impact of gender on Jewish religious practices and political behaviour, educational accomplishments and communal structures, acculturation and choice of occupations. The book stimulates conversations on such topics as Jewish women's creativity and spirituality, violence against women, Jews' reactions to persecution in the Holocaust, and Judaism as lived religion and culture. Honouring Paula Hyman, one of the founders of Jewish gender studies, this volume shows gender to be an eye-opening entry into realms of Jewish history previously untouched by it.

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Deborah Dash Moore and Marion Kaplan Part I: Women's Culture in Modern Jewish History How Does a Woman Write? Or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own / Shulamit S. Magnus
• Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship / Ismar Schorsch
• Jews, Women and Coffee in Early Modern Germany / Robert Liberles
• Water into Blood: Custom, Calendar, and an Unknown Yiddish Book for Women / Elisheva Carlebach
• "The Murdered Hebrew Maid Servant of East New York": Gender, Class, and the Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin
• Jewish Courtship and Marriage in 1920s Vienna / Marsha L. Rozenblit
• "Did you bring any girls?" Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosua, the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945 / Marion Kaplan
• The Contribution of Gender to the Study of the Holocaust / Dalia Ofer Part II: Gendered Dimensions of Religious Change Women in the Thought and Practice of the European Jewish Reform Movement / Michael A. Meyer
• German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women: The Views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer / David Ellenson
• Gender and Conversion Revisited / Todd Endelman
• The Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times / ChaeRan Y. Freeze
• Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan / Anne Lapidus Lerner
• Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodiment, and Women in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods / Chava Weissler
• Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought / Claire E. Sufrin Part III: Jewish Politics in American Accents "The Call to Action": Margaret Sanger, the Brownsville Jewish Women, and Political Activism / Judith Rosenbaum
• "Too Good to Have Been Made by a Woman": American Jewish Women Artists as Political Activists from the 1920s to the 1940s / Lauren B. Strauss
• Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras / Deborah Dash Moore
• Assembling Eichmann's Shackles / Deborah Lipstadt
• Golda and the Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and the Personas They Denied / Michael Scott Alexander
• Gendered Journeys: Jewish Migrations and the City in Postwar America / Lila Corwin Berman
• Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture / Beth S. Wenger Afterword: An Emancipating Experience: The Jews of France in Paula Hyman's Oeuvre / Richard I. Cohen Bibliography of Paula Hyman's Works
• Contributors
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BB04303912
• ISBN:
  • 9780253222633
  • 9780253355614
• LCCN: 2010027409
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 416 p.
• Size: 23-24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 305.48/8924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jewish women -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Jewish women authors
  • LCSH : Jewish women -- Religious life
  • LCSH : Jewish women -- Religious life -- Judaism
  • LCSH : Jewish women -- Political activity -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00248371