Reading Jewish Women
Subtitle: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry)
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781584653660
Subjects: Jewish studies; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Jewish women; Europe, Eastern; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Women and literature; Sociology; Eastern Europe; Judaism - General; Women's Studies - General; Religion / Judaism / General; Books and reading; 19th century; History; Intellectual life
First sentence: The tale of the processes of secularization and modernization that overtook Jewish society in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe is the story of widening fissures in a traditional religious society, a society that struggled to conserve its ways of life and beliefs against the internal and external forces threatening to shatter it.