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Five Books of Miriam (96 Edition)
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...
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The Jewish Woman Next Door: Repairing the World One Step at a Time
by Debby Flancbaum Synopsis The Jewish Woman Next Door: Repairing the World One Step at a Time is a collection of absorbing essays about contemporary Jewish women -- some known throughout the world, others known only in their own communities -- who engage in...
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Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
by Ruth Kark Publisher Comments This fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays brings gender issues to the foreground in order to redress a profound imbalance in the historiography of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and in the early years of the State of Israel....
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Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes
by Irena Klepfisz Book News Annotation In a framework that is Jewish, lesbian, feminist and class-conscious, Klepfisz speaks out against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, anti-Semitism and homophobia, compulsory motherhood, and the commercialization of the Holocaust, and...
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Change Within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya
by Rachel Simon Book News Annotation Traces the changing status of women in the Jewish community in Libya from the second half of the 19th century until 1969, when most Jews left the country. Explores how Jews were influenced by the Berber and Arab Muslim culture and its evolution; their...
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Coming Home to Jerusalem: A Personal Journey
by Wendy Orange Publisher Comments An American Jewish woman uproots her family to live in Jerusalem, searching for a new home. For Wendy Orange, a writer in her early forties, what starts as a ten-day conference in Jerusalem stretches into a six-year residence in one of the world's most...
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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...
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Contraversions #6: Conversations with Dvora
by Amia Lieblich Publisher Comments The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant...
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A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals
by Naomi Shepherd Publisher Comments Why, in the late nineteenth century, did Jewish woman suddenly march into the pages of radical history? A Price below Rubies introduces us to some of these memorable women - particularly, Anna Kuliscioff, Rosa Luxemburg, Esther Frumkin, Manya Shochat...
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A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals
by Naomi Shepherd Book News Annotation An Israeli scholar and journalist profiles seven Jewish women, each of whom leapt into radicalism in various places in the world during the period from the 1870s to the 1930s. After an extensive introduction summarizing the cultural and religious...
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Judaism Since Gender
by Miriam Peskowitz Publisher Comments 'Judaism Since Gender' illuminates a crucial debate among intellectuals both within and outside the academy, and ultimately overturns the belief that scholars of Judaism are still largely oblivious of recent developments in the study of gender....
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Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism
by Shaye J D Cohen Publisher Comments Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide...
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Woman in Jewish Law & Tradition
by Micahel Kaufman Book News Annotation Discusses what traditional Judaism says about faith and morality, women and family, and the differences between men and women. Among the topics are women's rights in marriage, sexuality, family purity, birth control and abortion, divorce, civil law...
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A Jewish Mother in Shangri-La
by Rosie Rosenzweig Publisher Comments An old joke tells of a Jewish woman who treks to the Himalayas to seek an audience with a guru sitting in seclusion on a mountaintop. When at last she comes before him, she implores: Sheldon, come home Rosie Rosenzweig became that Jewish mother--but in...
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Chattel or person? :the status of women in the Mishnah
by Judith Romne 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...
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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...
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Women as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem
by Susan Starr Sered Publisher Comments This book is an ethnographic study of the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly Jewish women, originally from Kurdistan and Yemen, who now live in Jerusalem. Sered visited the women in their homes and accompanied them on trips to holy tombs,...
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Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies
by Lynn Davidman Publisher Comments This book is the first to evaluate the development of feminist scholarship in various fields within Jewish studies. Eminent scholars in biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, history, literature, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and film studies...
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Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present
by Hasia Diner Publisher Comments From salons in Federal Philadelphia to Frontier homesteads to settlement houses in city slums to 1970s consciousness-raising sessions, American Jewish women have brought a distinctive sense of self and community to bear on the economic, social, and...
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Rescuing Haya: Confessions of an Eighth Generation Israeli Emigrant
by Shelly Spilka
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