TY - BOOK AU - Reguer,Sara TI - Opinionated: The World View of a Jewish Woman SN - 9781618116475 AV - E184.37.R44 U1 - 378.1/2092 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Boston, MA : PB - Academic Studies Press, KW - RELIGION / Essays KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I --; Farewell Column --; History --; Biblical Women --; Jewish Women in History --; Holocaust Studies --; Reviews --; Part II --; Jewish Law and Custom --; Italian Jews --; Opinion --; Appendix --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - A collection of essays which reflects the author's skills and her ability to communicate and educate on a variety of levels. Her writing is informative and inspiring, passionate and poignant and ranges from the comic to the tragic, all frequently peppered with personal insights and anecdotes. Critical family issues such as childlessness and matriarch are sensitively covered alongside issues of death and burial. Sometimes there are vignettes such as her account of the funeral conducted by her youthful father for a bird he accidentally killed. In sum, this collection provides a sweeping overview of Jewish life and culture as viewed through the eyes of an academic who is also a woman, equally at home in the real world and the ivory tower UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618116468 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618116468 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781618116468.jpg ER -