Women and Judaism
By: editors, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins, Jean Axelrad Cahan.
Contributors: Greenspoon, Leonard J.; Simkins, Ronald.; Cahan, Jean Axelrad.; Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.; University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.; Creighton University. Center for the Study of Religion and Society.
Series: Studies in Jewish civilization ;; 14
Publisher: Creighton University Press; Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Omaha, NE; Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Women in Judaism; Jewish women -- Religious life; Jewish women -- History; Women in rabbinical literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, The Harris Center for Judaic Studies, The Center for the Study of Religion and Society."
"Proceedings of the fourteenth annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization-Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 28-29, 2001"--Half title.
Table of contents: title: The domestication of Sarah : from Jewish matriarch to Hellenistic matron / Susan A. Brayford; title: Nice Jewish girls : liquor, sex, and power in antiquity / Charles David Isbell; title: Traditions about Miriam in the Qumran scrolls / Sidnie White Crawford; title: Women and Passover observance : reconsidering gender in the study of rabbinic texts / Marjorie Lehman; title: Weaving women's words : gendered oral histories for the study of American Jewish women / Jayne K. Guberman; title: Stories and subversion / S. Daniel Breslauer; title: A derivative hatred : images of Jewish women in modern anti-Semitic caricature / Henry Abramson; title: Judy in disguise : W.D. Griffith's Judith of Bethulia / Dan W. Clanton, Jr.; title: Creative expressions of resistance : original theater of Orthodox Israeli women / Reina Rutlinger-Reiner; title: Fixing it and fitting in : contemporary Jewish American women artists / Ori Z. Soltes; title: Women on the wall / Gail Twersky Reimer; title: Jewish feminist scholarship : a critical perspective / Esther Fuchs; title: Women as prophets and visionaries in Medieval and early modern Judaism / Morris M. Faierstein; title: Immigrant Jewish women who married out / Keren R. McGinity; title: Finding women in the story of American and Omaha Reform Judaism / Karla Goldman.