Symposium: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy; Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism; Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires; A Political Tradition? American Jewish Women and the Politics of History; The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots; Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah; The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature; The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women
Summary
The 16th volume in the studies in contemporary Jewry series features a symposium on the theme of Jews and gender. The articles show how a varied and controversial feminist approach can be applied to the field of Jewish studies
