Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Women and Judaism : New Insights and Scholarship / ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; 5Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780814732182
  • 9780814733110
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.082 23
LOC classification:
  • BM729.W6 W658 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Four Approaches to Women and the Jewish Experience -- Part I Classical Tradition -- 1 Jewish Feminist Approaches to the Bible -- 2 Women and Torah Study in Aggadah -- 3 Women and Jewish Law -- 4 Women in Medieval Jewish Societies -- 5 The Mystical Spirituality of Eastern European Jewish Women -- 6 How Central European Jewish Women Confronted Modernity -- Part III Contemporary Life -- 7 Women and American Judaism -- 8 Women’s Transformations of Contemporary Jewish Life -- Part IV Literature -- 9 Women in Jewish American Literature -- 10 Text, Nation, and Gender in Israeli Women’s Fiction -- Epilogue: Women and Judaism: From Invisibility to Integration -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate Jewish women’s domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life from biblical times to the present. Yet little of this important work has filtered down beyond specialists in their respective academic fields. Women and Judaism brings the broad new insights they have uncovered to the world.Women and Judaism communicates this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy by presenting accessible and engaging chapters written by key senior scholars that introduce the reader to different aspects of women and Judaism. The contributors discuss feminist approaches to Jewish law and Torah study, the spirituality of Eastern European Jewish women, Jewish women in American literature, and many other issues.Contributors: Nehama Aschkenasy, Judith R. Baskin, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Esther Fuchs, Judith Hauptman, Sara R. Horowitz, Renée Levine, Pamela S. Nadell, and Dvora Weisberg.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780814733110

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Four Approaches to Women and the Jewish Experience -- Part I Classical Tradition -- 1 Jewish Feminist Approaches to the Bible -- 2 Women and Torah Study in Aggadah -- 3 Women and Jewish Law -- 4 Women in Medieval Jewish Societies -- 5 The Mystical Spirituality of Eastern European Jewish Women -- 6 How Central European Jewish Women Confronted Modernity -- Part III Contemporary Life -- 7 Women and American Judaism -- 8 Women’s Transformations of Contemporary Jewish Life -- Part IV Literature -- 9 Women in Jewish American Literature -- 10 Text, Nation, and Gender in Israeli Women’s Fiction -- Epilogue: Women and Judaism: From Invisibility to Integration -- Contributors -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate Jewish women’s domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life from biblical times to the present. Yet little of this important work has filtered down beyond specialists in their respective academic fields. Women and Judaism brings the broad new insights they have uncovered to the world.Women and Judaism communicates this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy by presenting accessible and engaging chapters written by key senior scholars that introduce the reader to different aspects of women and Judaism. The contributors discuss feminist approaches to Jewish law and Torah study, the spirituality of Eastern European Jewish women, Jewish women in American literature, and many other issues.Contributors: Nehama Aschkenasy, Judith R. Baskin, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Esther Fuchs, Judith Hauptman, Sara R. Horowitz, Renée Levine, Pamela S. Nadell, and Dvora Weisberg.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)