And All Your Children Shall Be Learned Women and the Study of the Torah in Jewish Law and History

by Zolty, Shoshana Pantel

• ISBN13: 9780765799630
• ISBN10: 0765799634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

For women who think that traditional study is closed to them, or for men who feel that women should not learn Torah, or for any reader seeking to fully understand the value and history of Torah study and education in Judaism, And All Your Children Shall Be Learned will be both eye-opening and interesting, shedding light on a long-neglected topic, the contribution of women to the study of Torah.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
On Torah, The Halakhic (Jewish Judicial) System, and a Philosophy of Jewish Education	1	(18)
Judaism Defined	2	(1)
Basic Theological Premises	3	(1)
The Torah	4	(4)
Post-talmudic Literature and the Halakhic (Jewish Judicial) System	8	(5)
Philosophy of Jewish Education	13	(6)
The Role and Status of the Jewish Woman as Viewed in Traditional Judaism	19	(36)
The Creation of Man and Woman and the Need to Relate	20	(5)
Woman as Individual	25	(3)
The Ideal of the Jewish Family	28	(3)
Attitudes toward Women	31	(4)
Work Outside the Home and the Concept of Self-Fulfillment	35	(4)
Status of Women in Jewish Law (Halakhah)	39	(16)
The Study of Torah by Women in Halakhic (Jewish Legal) and Extra-Halakhic Literature	55	(42)
Talmudic Jurisprudence	55	(2)
Study of Torah by Women in Pre-Twentieth-Century Legal Sources	57	(8)
Study of Torah by Women in Twentieth-Century Legal Sources	65	(6)
The Halakhic Issue in Light of Halakhic Processes	71	(18)
Study of Torah by Women in Extra-halakhic Sources	89	(8)
A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part I-The Biblical Period to the Middle Ages	97	(34)
Images of Biblical Women	98	(3)
Education in Biblical and Second Temple Periods	101	(5)
Women's Religious Roles in the Second Temple Period	106	(1)
Evidence for Formal Education in the Late Second Temple Period	107	(6)
The Mishnaic (or Tannaitic) Period	113	(11)
The Talmudic (or Amoraic) Period	124	(7)
A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part II - The Hegemony of Babylonian Authority and Its Aftermath in the East and West	131	(40)
Geonic, Post-Geonic, and Islamic Periods	131	(15)
General Background	132	(5)
Education of Women	137	(3)
Women Scholars	140	(6)
The Sephardic Centers of Spain, Provence, Italy, and Elsewhere	146	(8)
Spain	146	(1)
General Background	146	(2)
Views of Spanish Rabbis Concerning Women and Torah Study	148	(3)
Evidence for Education of Women	151	(3)
Provence	154	(1)
Italy	155	(14)
General Background	155	(2)
Evidence for Torah Study by Women	157	(1)
Women in the Synagogue	158	(1)
Women Scholars and Functionaries	159	(3)
Religious Literature for Italian Jewish Women	162	(4)
Communal Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	166	(3)
Other Non-Ashkenazic Centers	169	(2)
A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part III - Christian Europe in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries	171	(18)
Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	171	(13)
General Background	171	(2)
Synagogue as a Means of Education	173	(3)
Exclusion of Women from Formal Education Enjoyed by Males	176	(1)
Informal Education and the Existence of Women Scholars	177	(6)
Passing References to the Testimony of Women Concerning Jewish Law	183	(1)
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	184	(5)
Prominent Women	184	(3)
Education and the Average Woman	187	(2)
A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part IV - Christian Europe in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries	189	(38)
Sixteenth Century	189	(13)
The Ascendancy of Eastern Europe	189	(4)
Prominent Jewish Women in the Sixteenth Century	193	(3)
Religious Literature for Women	196	(6)
Seventeenth Century	202	(13)
Women Scholars	202	(6)
Literature for Women and the Attitude toward Knowledge for Women	208	(4)
Evidence for Education of Women	212	(1)
Devotional Prayers for Women	213	(1)
Women Printers	213	(2)
Eighteenth Century	215	(12)
Woman Scholars	215	(4)
Devotional Literature	219	(4)
Forms of Education	223	(4)
A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part V - The Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jewish World	227	(36)
General Background	227	(4)
Jewish Education	231	(15)
France	231	(1)
Italy	231	(1)
England	232	(2)
Germany	234	(4)
Eastern Europe	238	(3)
The Balkans, Islamic States, and Other Countries Influenced by the Alliance Israelite Universelle	241	(1)
Palestine	242	(1)
United States of America	243	(3)
Women Scholars	246	(11)
Hasidic Women	247	(5)
Lithuanian and Russian Women Scholars	252	(3)
Women Scholars around the World	255	(2)
Women Writers	257	(6)
The Establishment of Universal Jewish Education for Women: The Beth Jacob Educational Movement	263	(38)
Background	264	(10)
Sarah Schenirer-Founder of Bais Ya'akov: A Model in Educational Leadership	274	(2)
Establishment and Development of Bais Ya'akov	276	(13)
Ideology and Curriculum of the Beth Jacob Schools	289	(12)
Matrix of Change	296	(1)
Analysis and Conclusion	297	(4)
Afterword	301	(10)
Bibliography	311	(16)
Index	327