Gender And Judaism

Author : Miriam Peskowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136667156
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism Since Gender written by Miriam Peskowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism Since Gender offers a radically new concept of Jewish Studies, staking out new intellectual terrain and redefining the discipline as an intrinsically feminist practice. The question of how knowledge is gendered has been discussed by philosophers and feminists for years, yet is still new to many scholars of Judaism. Judaism Since Gender illuminates a crucial debate among intellectuals both within and outside the academy, and ultimately overturns the belief that scholars of Judaism are still largely oblivious of recent developments in the study of gender. Offering a range of provocations--Jewish men as sissies, Jesus as transvestite, the problem of eroticizing Holocaust narratives--this timely collection pits the joys of transgression against desires for cultural wholeness.

Author : Kathy Ehrensperger
Publisher : Fortress Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781978707887
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Second-Temple Judaism written by Kathy Ehrensperger and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Second Temple Judaism examines the myriad constructions of gender in Second Temple Judaism including early Christianity. The chapters examine the state of the field and methodology and hone in on specific texts.

Author : Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025322263X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Jewish History written by Marion A. Kaplan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A Major Collection of Scholarship that Contains the most up-to-Date, Indeed Cutting-Edge Work on Gender and Jewish History by Several Generations of Top Scholars."--Atina Grossmann, the Cooper Union.

Author : Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479801275
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Judaism and Islam written by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a range of topics, including gendered readings of texts, legal issues in marriage and divorce, ritual practices, and women's literary expressions , along with feminist influences within the Muslim and Jewish communities and issues affecting Jewish and Muslim women in contemporary society.The volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences. At a time when Judaism and Islam are often discussed as though they were inherently at odds, this book offers a reconsideration of the connections between these two traditions.

Author : Walter Jacob
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812391
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Issues in Jewish Law written by Walter Jacob and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah General Editor: Walter Jacob+

Author : Tamar Rudavsky
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814774520
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Judaism written by Tamar Rudavsky and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstates through different essays Jewish Womens movement rides the fine line between tradition and transformation.

Author : Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035562
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism written by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a key tradition in Judaism (the rule that exempts women from "timebound, positive commandments"), which has served for centuries to stabilize women's roles. Against every other popular and scholarly perception of the rule, Elizabeth Shanks Alexander demonstrates that the rule was not intended to have such consequences. She narrates the long and complicated history of the rule, establishing the reasons for its initial formulation and the shifts in interpretation that led to its being perceived as a key marker of Jewish gender.

Author : Riv-Ellen Prell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814335683
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Remaking American Judaism written by Riv-Ellen Prell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women’s issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.

Author : Frederick E. Greenspahn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732291
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Judaism written by Frederick E. Greenspahn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although women constitute half of the Jewish population and have always played essential roles in ensuring Jewish continuity and the preservation of Jewish beliefs and values, only recently have their contributions and achievements received sustained scholarly attention. Scholars have begun to investigate Jewish women’s domestic, economic, intellectual, spiritual, and creative roles in Jewish life from biblical times to the present. Yet little of this important work has filtered down beyond specialists in their respective academic fields. Women and Judaism brings the broad new insights they have uncovered to the world. Women and Judaism communicates this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy by presenting accessible and engaging chapters written by key senior scholars that introduce the reader to different aspects of women and Judaism. The contributors discuss feminist approaches to Jewish law and Torah study, the spirituality of Eastern European Jewish women, Jewish women in American literature, and many other issues. Contributors: Nehama Aschkenasy, Judith R. Baskin, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Esther Fuchs, Judith Hauptman, Sara R. Horowitz, Renée Levine, Pamela S. Nadell, and Dvora Weisberg.

Author : Rachel Adler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807036198
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering Judaism written by Rachel Adler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-09-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 1998. How can women's full participation transform Jewish law, prayer, sexuality, and marriage? What does it mean to "engender" Jewish tradition? Pioneering theologian Rachel Adler gives this timely and powerful question its first thorough study in a book that bristles with humor, passion, intelligence, and deep knowledge of traditional biblical and rabbinic texts.