Reading Jewish Women Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

Name: Reading Jewish Women Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society
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ISBN: 9781584653677

ISBN-10: 1584653671

ISBN-13: 9781584653677

Edition: 2004

Authors: Iris Parush

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In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush opens up the hitherto unexamined world of literate Jewish women, their reading habits, and their role in the cultural modernization of Eastern European Jewish society in the nineteenth century. Parush makes a paradoxical claim: she argues that because Jewish women were marginalized and neglected by rabbinical authorities who regarded men as the bearers of religious learning, they were free to read secular literature in German, Yiddish, Polish, and Russian. As a result of their exposure to a wealth of literature, these reading women became significant conduits for Haskalah (Enlightenment) ideas and ideals within the Jewish community. This…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Reading Women and the Sprit of Jewish Enlightenment


Language, Literacy, and Literature as the Battleground of Haredim and Maskilim


Gender Roles and Women's "Window of Opportunity"


The Benefit of Marginality: Gender Differences in the Traditional Educational System


"A Women Prides Herself on Cooing and Prattling in French and German": The Secular Education of Women


The Reading-Biography of Men


"This Whole Trouble Is the Fault of the Little Story Books": Women Who Read Yiddish


"A Hebrew Maiden, Yet Acting Alien": Women Who Read European Languages


"One in a Thousand": Women and the Hebrew Language


Hebrew


Man's Apparatus or Woman's Apparel?