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Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah by Ellen Frankel Publisher Comments Chater one I. BERESHIT: Sexuality and Desire (GENESIS 1:1-6:8) TORAH SPEAKS: In the beginning, Shekhinah, the Holy-One who-Dwells-in-This-World, spins the world into being: light, water, earth, heavenly bodies, seed-bearing plants, sea creatures, birds... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions by Alicia Ostriker Publisher Comments "Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration". -- Marilyn Hacker, poet and former editor of Kenyon Review "The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eve's Journey: Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition by Nehama Aschkenasy Publisher Comments Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Nehama Aschkenasy uncovers the ancient roots of modern female characters and traces the changing cultural perceptions of women in Hebraic letters. This text draws on the vast body of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia by E Paula Hyman Publisher Comments This encyclopedia provides the first standard reference work on the lives, history and activities of Jewish women in the United States. Covering a period which extends from the arrival of the first Jewish women in North America in 1654 to the present... (read more) Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Women and American Judaism (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Lif) by Pamela Nadell Publisher Comments New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contraversions #6: Conversations with Dvora by Amia Lieblich Publisher Comments "This is a fascinating, haunting book. . . . Conversations with Dvora inevitably challenges our assumptions about the distances between art, life, and history as well as our judgments of the choices made by women of different generations."--Irena... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Takes a Dream: The Story of Hadassah by Marlin Levin Publisher Comments It began in 1911 with a women's study group in New York and soon grew to become the Hadassah Organization, the largest Zionist organization in the world with chapters in 30 countries. For 85 years, Hadassah has had a major impact on the development of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice (Brandeis Series on Jewish Women) by Rochelle L Millen Publisher Comments A sensitive exploration of the development of pivotal life cycle rituals as they touch Jewish women's lives.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women by Diana Bletter Publisher Comments A unique and vibrant portrait of 60 women, which explores how they blend their faith and/or sense of Jewishness with their lives, their families, their expectations, and their commitments. Includes 120 black and white photographs.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Woman's Voice by Marcella Bak Weiner Publisher Comments A Woman's Voice examines the themes reflected in the stories of women in the Bible and relates these motifs directly to the lives of women today. Marcella Bakur Weiner and Blema Feinstein celebrate the ideas and lessons found in traditional Jewish... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America by Marlene Adler Marks About the Author Laura Shaine Cunningham is a playwright and journalist whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Vogue, and Mirabella, among other publications. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Jewish Women's Prayers: Translations from the Yiddish by Norman Tarnor Publisher Comments A translation with commentary of the Yiddish techinot (prayers), once extremely popular among Eastern European Jews.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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920 O'Farrell Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco by Harriet Lane Levy Publisher Comments In 1906, Harriet Levy was talked into moving to Paris by her friend Alice B. Toklas and suddenly found herself immersed in a strange world peopled by artists who spoke a language she could not understand--a colorful world that she could only remotely... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Revisions: Seeing Torah Through a Feminist Lens by Elyse Goldstein Publisher Comments Re-examines the Five Books of Moses (Torah) to offer readers a modern, feminist perspective of the texts, practices and beliefs central to Jewish tradition.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation by Susan Glenn List Price $28.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz List Price $21.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Where she came from :a daughter's search for her mother's history by Helen Epstein List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Words on Fire by Vanessa L Ochs List Price $12.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sarah's daughters sing :a sampler of poems by Jewish women by Henny Wenkart Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jewish Women in Historical Perspective by Judith R Baskin List Price $39.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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