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Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, by Judith Reesa Baskin

Authors: Judith Reesa Baskin
ISBN-13: 9780814327135, ISBN-10: 0814327133
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Judith Reesa Baskin

Book Synopsis

A collection of fully revised and new essays that explore the richness of Jewish women's history.

Table of Contents

1. Portrayals of Women in the Hebrew Bible

2. Jewish Women in the Diaspora of Late Antiquity

3. The Image and Status of Women in Classical Rabbinic Judaism

4. Jewish Women in the Middle Ages

5. Sephardi Women in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

6. Italian Jewish Women

7. Prayers in Yiddish and the Religious World of Ashkenazic Women

8. Emancipation though Intermarraige? Wealthy Jewish Salon Women in Old Berlin

9. Engendering Liberal Jews: Jewish Women in Victorian England

10. Tradition and Transition: Jewish Women in Imperial Germany

11. The Women Teachers of the Alliance IsraƩlite Universelle, 1872-1940

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

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

14. Gender and the Immigrant Jewish Experience in the United States

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


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