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Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters)
Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters)
by Esther Schor
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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)

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On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition
On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition
by Blu Greenberg
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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)

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Listen to Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible
Listen to Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible
by Miki Raver
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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)

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My Life As a Radical Jewish Woman : Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland (02 Edition)
My Life As a Radical Jewish Woman : Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland (02 Edition)
by Puah Rakovsky
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... 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)

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The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt
The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt
by Ruth Andrew Ellenson
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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)

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The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom
The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom
by Tirzah Firestone
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278).... (read more)

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The Receiving
The Receiving
by Tirzah Firestone, Rabbi
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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)

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Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Tobin Belzer
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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)

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She Who Dwells Within Signed Edition
She Who Dwells Within Signed Edition
by Lynn Gottlieb
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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)

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Great Jewish Women
Great Jewish Women
by Elinor Slater
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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)

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Chattel or Person?: The Status of Women in the Mishnah
Chattel or Person?: The Status of Women in the Mishnah
by Judith Romney Wegner
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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)

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Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)
Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)
by Avraham Grossman
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The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.... (read more)

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Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
by Judith Plaskow
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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)

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Contraversions #9: Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History
Contraversions #9: Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History
by Miriam Peskowitz
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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)

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The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
by Sadia Shepard
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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 family’s secret history. Sadia Shepard grew up in a joyful, chaotic home just outside of Boston... (read more)

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Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives
Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives
by Tobin Belzer
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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)

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Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism
Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism
by Karla Goldman
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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)

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The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh
The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh
by Varda Polak Sahm
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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)

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The Jgirl's Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age
The Jgirl's Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age
by Penina Adelman
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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)

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Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal
Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal
by Diana Raab
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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)

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