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Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters) by Esther Schor Publisher Comments Emma Lazaruss most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her–a feminist, a Zionist, and an... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition by Blu Greenberg Publisher Comments A classic for over 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Listen to Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible by Miki Raver Synopsis Eve, Sarah, Rachel, Delilah, Ruth-their names live on, but their ancient stories have long been obscured. In this sumptuously illustrated retelling of the lives of 18 women in the Hebrew Bible, we are reunited with Deborah, the warrior prophetess, Tamar,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Life As a Radical Jewish Woman : Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland (02 Edition) by Puah Rakovsky Publisher Comments ... vital to understanding this period of East European Jewishhistory. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read s] like a novel. -- RussianReview In this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955)tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th-... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt by Ruth Andrew Ellenson Publisher Comments Twenty-eight of today’s top Jewish women writers tell the truth about all the things their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public in this hilarious and provocative collection. Includes original essays on: • Finding (and Divorcing) the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom by Tirzah Firestone Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278).... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Receiving by Tirzah Firestone, Rabbi Publisher Comments A highly respected rabbi, therapist, and teacher restores women's spiritual lineage to Judaism and empowers women to reclaim their rightful connection to Jewish teachings, Kabbalah, and to their own spiritual wisdom.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) by Tobin Belzer Publisher Comments Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious and cultural Jewish life, yet their unique perspectives have remained largely invisible. Through poetry and personal essays, Joining the Sisterhood sheds light on the lives of these young... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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She Who Dwells Within Signed Edition by Lynn Gottlieb Publisher Comments A high-spirited woman rabbi assesses contemporary Judaism and breathes new life into classic tradition by drawing on Jewish, feminist, ecological and Native American sources.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Jewish Women by Elinor Slater Publisher Comments From the biblical Deborah to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the individuals profiled in this volume are the authors' considered choice for Jewish women who have had the greatest impact on their respective fields.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chattel or Person?: The Status of Women in the Mishnah by Judith Romney Wegner Publisher Comments Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series) by Avraham Grossman Publisher Comments The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective by Judith Plaskow Publisher Comments A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing involvement of women in naming and shaping Jewish tradition.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contraversions #9: Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History by Miriam Peskowitz Publisher Comments Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources--archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin--she challenges... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home by Sadia Shepard Publisher Comments In this beautifully crafted memoir, a young half-Muslim, half-Christian woman travels to India to connect with a tiny Jewish community and unlock her familys secret history. Sadia Shepard grew up in a joyful, chaotic home just outside of Boston... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives by Tobin Belzer Publisher Comments Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today. A volume in the SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $29.55 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism by Karla Goldman Publisher Comments Exegesis -- interpretation and explanation of sacred texts -- is the quintessence of rabbinic thought. Through such means and methods, the written words of Hebrew Scripture have been extended since antiquity, and given new voices for new times. In this... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh by Varda Polak Sahm Publisher Comments Prologue 1 The Place 2 The Balaniyot 3 A Dose of Impurity 4 Blood and Banishment 5 Purity and Sexuality 6 Female Rituals, Sisterhood,and Female Authority 7 Between a Woman and God 8 Between Man and Wife... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Jgirl's Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age by Penina Adelman Publisher Comments The JGirls Guide is an inspirational, interactive book designed to help pre-teen Jewish girls address the spiritual, educational, and psychological issues surrounding coming of age in today's society. Topics include: - Ideals of beauty... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal by Diana Raab Publisher Comments When glamorous Regina inexplicably ends her own life, her ten-year-old grand-daughter Diana is devasted by the loss and haunted by questions she never got to ask her grandmother. Three decades later, Diana discovers her grandmothers journal which gives... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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