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 inves...

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