Women and Judaism
Subtitle: new insights and scholarship
By: Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn.
Contributors: Greenspahn, Frederick E., 1946-
Series: Jewish studies in the 21st century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814732182; 9780814732199
Subjects: Women in Judaism; Jewish women -- Religious life; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Jewish women -- History; Jewish women in literature; Jewish literature -- Women authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaches to women and the Jewish experience / Judith R. Baskin; title: Jewish feminist approaches to the Hebrew bible / Esther Fuchs; title: Women and Torah study in aggadah / Dvora Weisberg; title: Women and Jewish law / Judith Hauptman; title: Women in medieval Jewish societies / Renee Levine Melammed; title: The mystical spirituality of eastern European Jewish women / Chava Weissler; title: How central European Jewish women confronted modernity / Harriet Pass Freidenreich; title: Women and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell; title: Jewish women's transformations of contemporary Jewish life / Sylvia Barack Fishman; title: Women in Jewish American literature / Sara R. Horowitz; title: Text, nation, and gender in Israeli women's fiction / Nehama Aschkenasy; title: Women and Judaism: from invisibility to integration / Frederick E. Greenspahn.