| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 333 pages) |
| Series |
Haworth innovations in feminist studies |
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Haworth innovations in feminist studies.
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| Contents |
Living in a glass bowl: tales of a Rabbi's daughter / Elisheva Glass -- Bris, Britah: parents' first lessons in balancing gender, culture, tradition and religion / Susan Steinberg-Oren -- Married -- without a chupa / Roslyn Mendelson -- Queer Jewish women creating familits: new perspectives on Jewish family values / Susie Kisber -- Mothers, Judaism and true honor / Paula J. Caplan -- Backwards and forwards in america / Sandra Butler -- Personal reflections on being a grandmother: L'chol Dor Va Dor / Rachel Aber Schlesinger -- Jewish identity lost . and found / Trudi Alexy -- Trials and trubulations in the first year of a "mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi marriage" / Sarah Taieb Carlen -- The joys of Mitsvoth / Rebecca L. Bradley -- In search of Eden / Pnina Granirer -- Family memories and grave anxieties / Susan Weidman Schneider -- Really Jewish / Jane Marie Law -- You don't know me because you can label me: self-identity of an Orthodox feminist / Norma Baumen Joseph |
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The journey home: becoming a reconstructionist Rabbi / Elisa Goldberg -- Becoming Jewish / Brenda Lynn Siegel -- How Jewish am I? / Hannah Lerman -- The politics of coming home: gender and Jewish identities in the 1990s / Rachel N. Weber -- "Why Kafka?" a Jewish lesbian feminist asks herself / Evelyn Torton Beck -- "I don't know enough": Jewish women's learned ignorance / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel -- Learning to Leyn / Michele Clark -- Better late than early: a forty-eight-yeaar-old's Bat Mitzvah saga / Nina Perlmutter -- Exploring adolescent Jewish female identity: reflections about voice and relation / Carol Philips -- First there are the questions / Ellyn Kaschak -- Jewish battered women: Shalom Bayit or a shonde? / Lenore E.A. Walker -- Canadian Jewish women and their experiences and antisemitism and sexism / Nora Gold -- We are not as we were: Jewish women after the holocaust / Joan Fisch -- Violent legacies -- dialogues and possibilities / Judith Chalmer |
| Summary |
Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences. Survivors, witnesses, innovators, and healers, these women question, celebrate, and transmit Jewish and feminist values |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
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Jewish women -- Canada -- Biography
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Jewish women
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Canada
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Siegel, Rachel Josefowitz
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Cole, Ellen
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| ISBN |
9781317791362 |
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1317791363 |
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9781317791355 |
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1317791355 |
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