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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aschkenasy, Nehama,; Baskin, Judith R.,; Fishman, Sylvia Barack,; Freidenreich, Harriet Pass,; Fuchs, Esther,; Greenspahn, Frederick E.,; Hauptman, Judith,; Horowitz, Sara R.,; Melammed, Renée Levine,; Nadell, Pamela S.,; Weisberg, Dvora E.,; Weissler, Chava,
• HerausgeberIn: Greenspahn, Frederick E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of 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