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Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel »

Authors: Tamar El-Or, Haim Watzman
ISBN-13: 9780814327722, ISBN-10: 0814327729
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

An investigation into the education of woemn in the religious Zionist community and its influence on Orthodox Judaism.

	Translator's Note - A Narrative Glossary	9
	Prelude: The Cypresses in Magdiel	15
I	The Research Site and Methods	23
1	The Demand for Midrashot	25
2	Fieldwork as Homework	53
II	Next Pesach - Biographies of Students and Their Analysis	87
3	Biographies of Torah Learners	89
4	Six Colors - Many Voices	131
III	Dialogues on Torah Study and the Constitution of Identity	173
5	Between Joy and Enslavement - Constructing the New Mother	175
6	Between Yavne and Jerusalem - Nationality and Citizenship: An Aggadah Class	207
7	Between Torah and Science - The Last Modernists: A Class in the Philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook	233
IV	Anthropology and Literacy - From Critique to Participation	263
	Leah's Tallit	263
	Not Obligated but Able	280
	Literacy on Anthropology and Vice-Versa - Conclusion	290
	Epilogue: Is It a Real Revolution? Three Stations	293
	Notes	301
	List of References	315
	Index	323