Women And American Judaism
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Women And American Judaism
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Author : Pamela Susan Nadell
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2001
Women And American Judaism written by Pamela Susan Nadell and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.
Beyond The Synagogue Gallery
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Author : Karla GOLDMAN
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Beyond The Synagogue Gallery written by Karla GOLDMAN and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Religion categories.
Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant communities strove for middle-class respectability for themselves and their religion, even while fearing a loss of traditions and identity. For acculturating Jews some practices, like the ritual bath, quickly disappeared. Women's traditional segregation from the service in screened women's galleries was gradually replaced by family pews and mixed choirs. By the end of the century, with the rising tide of Jewish immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe, the spread of women's social and religious activism within a network of organizations brought collective strength to the nation's established Jewish community. Throughout these changing times, though, Goldman notes persistent ambiguous feelings about the appropriate place of women in Judaism, even among reformers. This account of the evolving religious identities of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century; it makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in America.
Women Remaking American Judaism
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Author : Riv-Ellen Prell
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2007
Women Remaking American Judaism written by Riv-Ellen Prell and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women's issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women's studies.
Women And Judaism
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Author : Frederick E. Greenspahn
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-11
Women And Judaism written by Frederick E. Greenspahn and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Religion categories.
"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 filters down beyond specialists in their respective academic fields. Women and Judaism brings the broad new insights they have uncovered to the world, presenting their work in an accessible and engaging way. Key senior scholars discuss women's approaches to Jewish law and Torah study, the spirituality of Eastern European Jewish women, Jewish women in American literature, and many other issues."--Back of book.
The American Jewish Woman
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Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
language : en
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Release Date : 1981
The American Jewish Woman written by Jacob Rader Marcus and has been published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
Contains primary source material.
America S Jewish Women A History From Colonial Times To Today
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Author : Pamela Nadell
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2019-03-05
America S Jewish Women A History From Colonial Times To Today written by Pamela Nadell and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with History categories.
A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
In Our Own Voices
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Author : Jayne K. Guberman
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Women's Archive
Release Date : 2005
In Our Own Voices written by Jayne K. Guberman and has been published by Jewish Women's Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Jewish women categories.
The Journey Home
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Author : Joyce Antler
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997
The Journey Home written by Joyce Antler and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Anarchists and Zionists, "sob sister" writers and Supreme Court justices, rabbis and reformers, personalities as diverse as Emma Goldman, Sophie Tucker and Gertrude Stein have left their indelible mark on the American century.
American Jewish Women S History
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Author : Pamela S. Nadell
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2003-04-05
American Jewish Women S History written by Pamela S. Nadell and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-05 with History categories.
“It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,“Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles. American Jewish Women’s History, an anthology covering colonial times to the present, illuminates that historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbors. It ranges from Rebecca Gratz’s development of the Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1838 to protest the rising prices of kosher meat at the turn of the century, to the shaping of southern Jewish women's cultural identity through food. There is currently no other reader conveying the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women available. The reader is divided into four sections complete with detailed introductions. The contributors include: Joyce Antler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Paula E. Hyman, Riv-Ellen Prell, and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Talking Back
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Author : Joyce Antler
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1998
Talking Back written by Joyce Antler and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Essays that discuss the portrayal of Jewish women in American culture.