Bringing Down the Temple House

Marjorie Lehman

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological ... Lees meer

Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women's experiences... Lees meer

A Season of Singing

Sarah M Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became kno... Lees meer

The Weavers of Trautenau

Janine P Holc

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources. Beginning in late 194... Lees meer

Bringing Down the Temple House

Marjorie Lehman

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological ... Lees meer

Marie Syrkin

Carole S Kessner

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A compelling biography of an important eyewitness to the twentieth century. Marie Syrkin's life spanned ninety years of the twentieth century, 1899-19... Lees meer

Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• The concepts of gender, love, and family--as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family... Lees meer

The Soul of the Stranger

Joy Ladin

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious ... Lees meer

The Strangers We Became

Cynthia Kaplan Shamash

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her... Lees meer

The Soul of the Stranger

Joy Ladin

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious ... Lees meer

The Weavers of Trautenau

Janine P Holc

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources. Beginning in late 194... Lees meer

Dirshuni

Tamar Biala, Tamar Kadari

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash , is the first-ever English edition of a historic colle... Lees meer

Educating in the Divine Image

Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman, Elana Maryles Sztokman

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length exam... Lees meer

Hadassah

Hadassah Lieberman

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston... Lees meer

Midrashic Women

Judith R Baskin

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Bask... Lees meer

A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls

Sharon R Siegel

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newb... Lees meer

Expanding the Palace of Torah

Tamar Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Ort... Lees meer

Sculpting a Life

Paula J Birnbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. In Sculpting a Life , the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula... Lees meer

Frankly Feminist

Susan Weidman Schneider, Yona Zeldis Mcdonough

• Paperback | Engels | Hbi Jewish Women
• A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have--no surprise--typically given women a... Lees meer