Jews and Gender The Challenge to Hierarchy

by Frankel, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780195140811
• ISBN10: 0195140818
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Volume XVI in this well-received annual series contains an up-to-date survey of gender issues in modern Judaism. It includes original essays on Orthodox Judaism and feminism, American Jewish women, female rabbis, the impact of feminism on rabbinic study, masculinity, Jewish women in the Third Reich, and gender and military service.

Table of Contents

Symposium
The Challenge to Hierarchy
Jews
Gender
Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism	3	(36)
Tamar Ross
Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires	39	(15)
Paula E. Hyman
A Political Tradition? American Jewish Women and the Politics of History	54	(16)
Hasia R. Diner
The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots	70	(18)
Marion Kaplan
Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah	88	(13)
Daniel Boyarin
The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature	101	(18)
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women	119	(23)
Jody Myers
Imagining ``Masculinity'' in the Jewish Fin de Siecle	142	(14)
Hillel J. Kieval
The Modernish Erotics of Jewish Tradition: A View from the Gallery	156	(15)
Naomi Seidman
Body-building, Character-building, and Nation-building: Gender and Military Service in Israel	171	(20)
Eyal Ben-Ari
Edna Levy-Schreiber
Replaying the Rape of Dinah: Women's Bodies in Israeli Cultural Discourse	191	(18)
Susan Sered
Jewish Women in Transition: A Comparative Sociodemographic Perspective	209	(36)
Sergio DellaPergola
Essays
Bearing Witness to the ``Differend'': Jean-Francois Lyotard, the Postmodern Intellectual, and ``the jews''	245	(20)
Jonathan Judaken
As Families Remember: Holocaust Memoirs and Their Transmission	265	(24)
Elisheva Baumgarten
Review Essays
Postmodernism and the Jewish Question	289	(5)
Emily Miller Budick
Beyond Heroism and Victimhood: Gender and Holocaust Scholarship	294	(11)
Susannah Heschel
People of the Image	305	(8)
Ezra Mendelsohn
On the Brink of Peace? More Israeli Memoirs	313	(10)
Gerald Steinberg
Book Reviews (arranged by subject)
Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide
Antisemitism in Germany: The Post-Nazi Epoch since 1945	323
Werner Bergmann
Rainer Erb
Peter Bergmann
Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum	294	(31)
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Susannah Heschel
My Jewish Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin	325	(2)
Peter Gay
Donald L. Niewyk
Bitter Legacy Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR	327
Zvi Gitelman
John-Paul Himka
Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory	294	(29)
Marianne Hirsch
Susannah Heschel
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification	323	(6)
Hermann Kurthen
Werner Bergmann
Rainer Erb
Peter Bergmann
Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettleheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps, and the Mass Society	329	(1)
Paul Marcus
Amia Lieblich
Hashoah vehikrah: hamsagah, minuah, vesugiyot yesod (The Hlocaust and Holocaust Research: Conceptualization, Terminology and Basic Issues)	330	(2)
Dan Michman
David Engel
Odyssey of Exile: Jewish Women Flee the Nazis for Brazil	332
Katherine Morris
Judith Laikin Elkin
Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival	294	(1)
Donald L. Niewyk
Susannah Heschel
Women in the Holocaust	294	(40)
Dalia Ofer
Leonore J. Weitzman
Susannah Heschel
Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide	334	(2)
Alan S. Rosenbaum
David Cesarani
Antisemitism	336	(2)
Milton Shain
Gavin I. Langmuir
Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz	338	(3)
Efraim Sicher
Lawrence L. Langer
History and the Social Sciences
The Image of the Jew in Polish Folk Culture	341	(2)
Alina Cala
Joshua D. Zimmerman
Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora	343	(2)
Nancy L. Green
Jack Jacobs
The Jews of Modern France	345	(1)
Paula E. Hyman
Pierre Birnbaum
China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin	346	(2)
Isabelle Maynard
Irene Eber
Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States	348	(2)
Jack Salzman
Cornel West
Emily Miller Budick
Jews against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties	350
Stuart Svonkin
Henry Feingold
Language, Literature and the Arts
Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the ``Jewish Question'' after Auschwitz	289	(65)
Elizabeth Bellamy
Emily Miller Budick
Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan. Poetische Korrespondenzen	354	(3)
Shimon Sandbank
Bernhard Boschenstein
Sigrid Weigel
Between ``Race'' and Culture: Representations of ``the Jew'' in English and American Literature	357	(2)
Bryan Cheyette
Michael Shapiro
Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture	359
Robert Fleisher
Edwin Seroussi
History and Memory after Auschwitz	289	(1)
Dominick LaCapra
Emily Miller Budick
Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma	289	(16)
Dominick LaCapra
Emily Miller Budick
Jewish Identity in Modern Art History	305	(57)
Catherine Soussloff
Ezra Mendelsohn
Religion, Thought and Education
Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew	362	(2)
Edward Alexander
Alan Wald
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and ``The Final Solution''	364	(2)
Bernard J. Bergen
Richard H. King
Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community	366	(2)
Arnold M. Eisen
Michael Wyschogrod
Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy, ed. Michael L. Morgan	368	(2)
Emil L. Fackenheim
Arnold Eisen
Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman's Voice	370	(2)
Judith Hauptman
Shmuel Shilo
A Vindication of Judaism: The Polemics of the Hertz Pentateuch	372	(3)
Harvey Warren Meirovich
Lloyd P. Gartner
Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America	375
Jack Wertheimer
Michael A. Meyer
Zionism, Israel and the Middle East
Haderekh leshalom' overet beMadrid (The Road to Peace Crosses Madrid)	313	(65)
Eitan Bentsur
Gerald Steinberg
Chaim Weizmann, hanasi harishon: mivhar igerot uneumim (Chaim Weizmann: Selected Letters and Speeches)	378	(3)
Louise Fischer
Isaiah Friedman
The Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement and the Palestinian Intifada	381	(2)
Reuven Kaminer
Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Israel and the Western Powers 1952--1960	383	(3)
Zach Levey
Mordechai Bar-On
Gahelet lohemet: giyus huz laarez bemilhemet ha'azmaut (Fighting Ember: Gahal Forces in the War of Independence)	386	(1)
Yaakov Markovitzky
Alon Kadish
The Kibbutz Movement: A History, vol. 2, Crisis and Achievement 1939-1995	387
Henry Near
Eliezer Ben-Rafael
The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations	313	(1)
Itamar Rabinovich
Gerald Steinberg
The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East	313	(76)
Uri Savir
Gerald Steinberg
David Ben-Gurion: medinat yisrael veha'olam ha'aravi, 1949--1956 (David Ben-Gurion: The State of Israel and the Arab World, 1949--1956)	389	(4)
Zaki Shalom
Ilan Pappe
Letter to the Editor	393	(1)
Response	394	(1)
Contents for Volume XVII	395	(2)
Note on Editorial Policy	397