Gender and Jewish History

by Kaplan, Marion A.; Moore, Deborah Dash

• ISBN13: 9780253355614
• ISBN10: 0253355613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-03
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

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 Historyconsiders 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

Women's Culture in Modern Jewish History

How Does a Woman Write? Or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own

Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship

Jews, Women and Coffee in Early Modern Germany

Water into Blood: Custom, Calendar, and an Unknown Yiddish Book for Women

"The Murdered Hebrew Maid Servant of East New York": Gender, Class, And The Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora

Jewish Courtship and Marriage in 1920s Vienna

"Did you bring any girls?" Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosúa, The Dominican Republic, 1940-1945

the Contribution of Gender To The Study of the Holocaust

Gendered Dimensions of Religious Change

Women in the Thought and Practice of the European Jewish Reform Movement

German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women: The Views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer

Gender and Conversion Revisited

the Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times

Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan

Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodiment, and Women in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods

Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought

Jewish Politics in American Accents"The Call to Action": Margaret Sanger, The Brownsville Jewish Women, and Political Activism

"Too Good to Have Been Made by a Woman": American Jewish Women Artists as Political Activists from the 1920s To The 1940s

Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras

Assembling Eichmann's Shackles

Golda And The Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, And The Personas They Denied

Gendered Journeys: Jewish Migrations And The City in Postwar America

Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture

Afterword: An Emancipating Experience: The Jews of France in Paula Hyman's Oeuvre

Bibliography of Paula Hyman's Works

Contributors

Index

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