Jewish Women in Historical Perspective

Name: Jewish Women in Historical Perspective
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ISBN: 9780814327135

ISBN-10: 0814327133

ISBN-13: 9780814327135

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Judith R. Baskin

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This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 12/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Contributors


Editor's Note


Introduction




Portrayals of Women in the Hebrew Bible




Jewish Women in the Diaspora World of Late Antiquity




The Image and Status of Women in Classical Rabbinic Judaism




Jewish Women in the Middle Ages




Sephardi Women in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods




Italian Jewish Women




Prayers in Yiddish and the Religious World of Ashkenazic Women




Emancipation through Intermarriage? Wealthy Jewish Salon Women in Old Berlin




Engendering Liberal Jews: Jewish Women in Victorian England




Tradition and Transition: Jewish Women in Imperial Germany




The Women Teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1872-1940




East European Jewish Women in an Age of Transition, 1880-1930




Daughters of the Nation: Between the Public and Private Spheres in Pre-State Israel




Gender and the Immigrant Jewish Experience in the United States




Spiritual Expressions: Jewish Women's Religious Lives in the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries



Index