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Celebrating the lives of Jewish women : patterns in a feminist sampler
- Title
- Celebrating the lives of Jewish women : patterns in a feminist sampler / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel, Ellen Cole, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Haworth Press, 1997.
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- Description
- xxx, 333 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences. Survivors, witnesses, innovators, and healers, these women question, celebrate, and transmit Jewish and feminist values.
- Series Statement
- Haworth innovations in feminist studies
- Uniform Title
- Haworth innovations in feminist studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Marcia Cohn Spiegel -- Preface / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel and Ellen Cole -- Sect. I. From Generation to Generation: The Meanings of Mishpacha. Ch. 1. Living in a Glass Bowl: Tales of a Rabbi's Daughter / Elisheva Glass. Ch. 2. Bris, Britah: Parents' First Lessons in Balancing Gender, Culture, Tradition, and Religion / Susan Steinberg-Oren. Ch. 3. Married - Without a Chupa / Roslyn Mendelson. Ch. 4. Queer Jewish Women Creating Families: New Perspectives on Jewish Family Values / Susie Kisber. Ch. 5. Mothers, Judaism, and True Honor / Paula J. Caplan. Ch. 6. Backwards and Forwards in America / Sandra Butler. Ch. 7. Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L'Chol Dor Va Dor / Rachel Aber Schlesinger -- Sect. II. Wandering Jews: Lives Fractured by Geography. Ch. 8. Jewish Identity Lost...and Found / Trudi Alexy. Ch. 9. Trials and Tribulations in the First Year of a "Mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi Marriage" / Sarah Taieb Carlen.
- Ch. 10. The Joys of Mitsvoth / Rebecca L. Bradley. Ch. 11. In Search of Eden / Pnina Granirer. Ch. 12. Family Memories and Grave Anxieties / Susan Weidman Schneider -- Sect. III. The Journey Home. Ch. 13. Really Jewish / Jane Marie Law. Ch. 14. You Don't Know Me Because You Can Label Me: Self-Identity of an Orthodox Feminist / Norma Baumel Joseph. Ch. 15. The Journey Home: Becoming a Reconstructionist Rabbi / Elisa Goldberg. Ch. 16. Becoming Jewish / Brenda Lynn Siegel. Ch. 17. How Jewish Am I? / Hannah Lerman. Ch. 18. The Politics of Coming Home: Gender and Jewish Identities in the 1990s / Rachel N. Weber. Ch. 19. "Why Kafka?" A Jewish Lesbian Feminist Asks Herself / Evelyn Torton Beck -- Sect. IV. Eve and the Tree of Knowledge: Woman's Place among the People of the Book. Ch. 20. "I Don't Know Enough": Jewish Women's Learned Ignorance / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel. Ch. 21. Learning to Leyn / Michele Clark.
- Ch. 22. Better Late Than Early: A Forty-Eight-Year-Old's Bat Mitzvah Saga / Nina Perlmutter. Ch. 23. Exploring Adolescent Jewish Female Identity: Reflections About Voice and Relation / Carol Philips. Ch. 24. First There Are the Questions / Ellyn Kaschak -- Sect. V. Pain and Healing, Sorrow and Hope. Ch. 25. Jewish Battered Women: Shalom Bayit or a Shonde? / Lenore E. A. Walker. Ch. 26. Canadian Jewish Women and Their Experiences of Antisemitism and Sexism / Nora Gold. Ch. 27. We Are Not As We Were: Jewish Women After the Holocaust / Joan Fisch. Ch. 28. Violent Legacies - Dialogues and Possibilities / Judith Chalmer.
- ISBN
- 0789000865 (hard : alk. paper)
- 1560239131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97005263
- OCLC
- 43920312
- ocm43920312
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries