Aviva Cantor

**Aviva Cantor** (an haife shi a shekara ta 1940) yar jaridar Amurka ce, malami kuma marubuci.Mai ba da shawara na mata da dimokiraɗiyya na rayuwar jama'ar Yahudawa,Cantor ya kasance mai himma wajen haɓaka abubuwan Yahudawa masu ci gaba sama da shekaru 40.Ta kasance mai haɗin gwiwa a cikin 1968 na Yancin Yahudawa a New York,ƙungiyar Sihiyoniya ta Socialist,kuma ta kasance editan kafa editan *Jaridar Yancin* Yahudanci. JLP tana daga cikin ƙungiyoyin Yahudawa na farko da suka ba da shawarar mafita ta ƙasashe biyu (1968).

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Aviva Cantor a cikin 1940 kuma ya girma a Gabashin Bronx ta hanyar gargajiya amma iyayen Orthodox waɗanda suka yi hijira zuwa Arewacin Amirka daga Rasha bayan yakin duniya na farko.Ta halarci Makarantar Ramaz,makarantar Yahudawa ta Orthodox, ta kammala karatun sakandare a matsayin Valedictorian.1957.Ta shafe shekaru biyu tana karatun tarihi a Jami'ar Ibrananci ta Kudus,kuma ta sauke karatu daga Kwalejin Barnard a 1961 kuma daga Makarantar Graduate na Jarida ta Jami'ar Columbia a 1963.A karshen shekarun 1969 ta shiga harkar fafutukar neman yancin kasar Biafra,ta kuma zama mataimakiyar shugabar kwamitin mawaka da marubuta na Biafra.

A cikin 1976,ta ƙaddamar kuma ta kafa *Lilith*mujallar mata ta Yahudawa mai zaman kanta ta kwata-kwata,wadda ta yi aiki a matsayin editan haɗin gwiwa ta hanyar 1987,kuma don abin da ta rubuta akai-akai. Labarinta sun bayyana a cikin wallafe-wallafe da yawa,ciki har da *Ms.*, *Muryar Ƙauyen*, da *[[Israel Horizons|Isra'ila Horizons]]*,da kuma a cikin litattafai da dama.Rahotonta ga Hukumar Kula da Watsa Labarun Yahudawa (JTA) kan al'ummar Yahudawan Amurka,Isra'ila,jerin sassanta da yawa kan al'ummomin Yahudawa na waje-ciki har da Cuba,Argentina, Ostiriya,Turai ta Tsakiya da Kenya-da kuma hirar da ta yi da mutane kamar Gerhard Riegner, Carl Sagan,David Wyman, da Renee Epelbaum, an haɗa su a duniya.

After teaching the first Jewish feminist course in the Jewish Free High School in 1972, she compiled, edited and annotated several editions of *The Jewish Woman, 1900–1985: A Bibliography*, the 4th of which was published by BiblioPress in 1986 and 1987. Her children's book manuscript, *Tamar's Cat: A Story of the Exodus*, won first prize in the Sydney Taylor Children's Book Manuscript Contest of the Association of Jewish Libraries in 1991. She is also the author of several plays, including  *Esther and the Three Fools: A Feminist Purimshpiel*;  *Moses and Tziporah with the Pesky Ex-Slaves in the  Desert*; and *Hamlet's Secrets*, a comedy.

A cikin 1995,Harper San Francisco ta buga babban aikinta na 548,*Matan Yahudawa/Mazajen Yahudawa:Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life*,binciken mata na tarihin Yahudawa,al'adu da ilimin halin dan Adam (wanda ke da shafuka 100 na ƙarshen bayanin).Aikin yana sanya rayuwar Yahudawa ta gargajiya da ta zamani a ƙarƙashin na'urar duban mata.

Ɗaya daga cikin batutuwanta na tsakiya shine cewa buƙatun rayuwar Yahudawa a cikin "gaggawa na kasa" na shekaru 2,000 na gudun hijira a ƙarƙashin yanayi na zalunci da haɗari ya zama dole a canza al'ummomin gida zuwa milieus da aka sanar da dabi'un mata na rashin tashin hankali,aɗin kai,dogara da juna,tausayi,da ijma'i.Mutumin Bayahude mai manufa ya canza "daga macho zuwa mentsch" ta hanyar haramtacciyar ta'addanci iri-iri da sake fasalin namiji a matsayin koyo da ilimi.A lokaci guda kuma,an ba wa mata damar damawa da yawa don tabbatarwa,amma idan ya kasance cikin muradun rayuwar jama'a.An horar da ta don zama "mai ba da tabbacin altruistic-mai tabbatarwa" (a cikin gamayya,ma'anar gargajiya ta kalmar "mai kunnawa" watau, mai gudanarwa).Hakika mazaje ba su gushe suna mallake al’umma ba,sun yanke shawara a kan manufofinta da dokokinta,da zabar shugabancinta (aji sun taka rawa a nan).

Cantor ya yi imanin cewa wannan nasarar da aka samu na sauyi na matsayi da rayuwar jama'a ya tabbatar da cewa tunanin maza na tashin hankali,ko da kuwa ya zama kwayoyin halitta,za a iya shawo kan su idan maza da mata suna da isasshen kuzari kuma suna sane da adalci na duniya mai zaman lafiya,daidaito,a cikin ruhun wahayin annabi Ishaya.

## Other activities
Cantor kuma yana aiki a cikin ƙungiyar kare dabba kuma shine Mataimakin Shugaban "CHAI:Damuwa don Taimakawa Dabbobi a Isra'ila,"wanda Nina Natelson ya kafa a 1984 don taimakawa al'ummar jin dadin dabbobi na Isra'ila don inganta yanayin dabbobin gida a cikin ƙasa mai kawai.ƴan SPCAs da yawancin al'ummomin baƙi waɗanda ba su da al'adar kariyar dabbobi da yanayin yaƙi mai gudana. Ya tsara dokar kare dabbobi ta Isra'ila;gudanar da shirye-shiryen ilimi na ɗan adam da yawa (ciki har da ɗaya don yaran Yahudawa da Larabawa a Tel Aviv SPCA),wurin IB.Cibiyar Ilimi ta Singer Humane wadda ta gina;kuma sun gudanar da muhimman taruka,ciki har da na malamai kan alakar cin zarafin dabbobi,cin zarafi a cikin gidada kuma laifukan manya wadanda suka azabtar da dabbobi tun suna yara,da kuma wani kan hanyoyin da za a bi wajen amfani da dabbobi wajen gwaji.

CHAI ta gina matsuguni a Tiberias,tana kula da shirin spay-neuter na wayar hannu da shirin gyaran doki.Ita da kungiyar 'yar uwarta ta Isra'ila,HAKOL Chai,sun ceci karnuka da kuliyoyi da dama da aka ji rauni ko aka yi watsi da su a harin da aka kai wa Sderot.Marigayi Rep. Tom Lantos,wanda ya yi aiki a Hukumar Ba da Shawarwari ta CHAI,ya kasance mai goyon bayan aikin da ya dace,kamar yadda wanda ya lashe kyautar Nobel Isaac Bashevis Singer.Cantor ya rubuta rukunin Ilimin Dan Adam mai darasi 10 yana zana gabaɗaya akan tushen Yahudawa,wanda ya hana zalunci ga dabbobi (ko da yake Yahudanci ya ba da izinin yanka don abinci,dokar Yahudawa ta buƙaci tsarin ya kasance kusa da mara zafi sosai kamar yadda zai yiwu;wannan yanayin ba ya samun yawa sosai.A yau,musamman a Kudancin Amirka  ).

In the 1980s, she initiated an ultimately successful Women's Appeal for the release of Soviet Prisoner of Conscience Ida Nudel.

Cantor kuma memba ne na hukumar ba da shawara ta Tuna Cibiyar Mata 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Cantor ya yi aure na tsawon shekaru 38 ga dan jarida Murray Zuckoff,wanda ya bayyana kansa "mai juyin juya hali,"Sihiyoniya dan gurguzu kuma dan jarida mai bincike (mai ba da rahoto na *Paterson Morning Call* kuma editan JTA),wanda ya yi gwagwarmayar tabbatar da gaskiya da adalci da alkalami.Ya kuma kasance malami mai kwazo a CUNY.Zuckoff yana son Isra'ila,Yiddish,kuliyoyi.littattafai,kiɗa,fasahar jama'a da Star Trek.Ya rasu a shekara ta 2004. Cantor kuma yana tsara kiɗan liturgical kuma yana ɗaukar hoton cat ɗinta azaman abin sha'awa.

## Littafi Mai Tsarki

* Cantor, Aviva. *Matar Bayahude, 1900-1985: Littafin Rubutu* . New York, NY: Biblio Press, 1985, 1986.
* Cantor, Aviva: "The Egalitarian Hagada." New York: Littattafan Beruriah, 1991, 1992, 1994.
* Cantor, Aviva. *Mata Yahudawa/Mazajen Yahudawa: Gadon sarauta a rayuwar Yahudawa* . San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995.

## Manazarta