TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aschkenasy,Nehama
AU  - Baskin,Judith R.
AU  - Fishman,Sylvia Barack
AU  - Freidenreich,Harriet Pass
AU  - Fuchs,Esther
AU  - Greenspahn,Frederick E.
AU  - Hauptman,Judith
AU  - Horowitz,Sara R.
AU  - Melammed,Renée Levine
AU  - Nadell,Pamela S.
AU  - Weisberg,Dvora E.
AU  - Weissler,Chava
TI  - Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship 
T2  - Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
SN  - 9780814732182
AV  - BM729.W6 W658 2016
U1  - 296.082 23
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Jewish literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Jewish women in literature
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - History
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Women in Judaism
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814732182.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814733110
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814733110/original
ER  -