Research Catalog

Title

Jews and gender / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Publication

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)

Description

xvi, 311 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Jews and Gender features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics. Accessible and comprehensive, this volume will appeal to the general reader in addition to engaging with contemporary academic scholarship"--

Series Statement

Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; volume 32

Uniform Title

Studies in Jewish civilization ; 32.

Subject

• Women in Judaism > Congresses
• Sex role > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses
• Feminism > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses
• Jewish women > Religious life > Congresses
• Feminism > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Jewish women > Religious life
• Sex role > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Women in Judaism

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Proceedings of the thirty-second annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, October 27-28, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The heroines of everyday life : ancient Israelite women in context / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott -- An ironic/satirical, subversively proto-feminist reading of the daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36 / Jay Caballero -- Constructing gender bride by bride : rabbinic ideas of citizenship in light of gender / Susan Marks -- Gendering emotion in Genesis Rabbah / Joel Gereboff -- The legalization of modesty : sources and significance / Emmanuel Bloch -- Marriage, motherhood, and the matriarchs in the Zohar / Margaret Gurewitz Smith -- Chasidism and gender through a new reading of a feminist story of R. Nachman of Breslov / Roni Bar Lev -- Jewish homesteader memoir : a woman's story -- Mara W. Cohen Ioannides -- "He wanted to make them into educated, enlightened people" : Jewish immigrants, acculturation, and gender stereotypes in A. D. Oguz's 'Di fraydenker' Matthew H. Brittingham -- Locking up Al Levy : Jewish masculinity in the early Civil Rights Movement / Jeannette Gabriel -- Golda Meir, Sarojini Naidu, and the rise of female political leaders in British India and British Mandate Palestine / Joseph R. Hodes -- Jewish feminism as a model for Judaism as a choice / Hannah Kehat -- The pioneering American Jewish women directors : from Elaine May to Claudia Weill / Lawrence Baron -- "When you're a funny girl" : confirming and complicating accepted cultural images of Jewish femininity in the films of Barbra Streisand / Samantha Pickette -- "Schlemiel feminism" : Jewish humor and activism on 'Broad City' / David Gillota -- Poskot in the palace of Torah : a preliminary study of orthodox feminism and Halachic process Gail Labovitz.

Call Number

JFE 22-3562

ISBN

• 9781612497273
• 1612497276
• 9781612497129
• 1612497128

LCCN

2021035632

OCLC

1245344879

Title

Jews and gender / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Publisher

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; volume 32

Studies in Jewish civilization ; 32.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3562