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Informationen zum Autor Marion A. Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Klappentext How did conceptions of gender influence Jewish women's lives and actions and the histories or stories about them that have been told? Gender and Jewish History brings together leading scholars to reveal the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past. The original essays gathered here highlight the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Considering the impact of gender on Jewish religious practices and political behavior, educational accomplishments and communal structures, and acculturation and choice of occupations, the book stimulates new conversations on such topics as Jewish women's creativity and spirituality, violence against women, Jews' reaction to persecution in the Holocaust, and Judaism as lived religion and culture. Honoring Paula Hyman, one of the founders of Jewish gender studies, the volume shows gender to be an eye-opening entry into realms of Jewish history previously untouched by it. Zusammenfassung Gender's critical importance to understanding Jewish history Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction / Deborah Dash Moore and Marion A. Kaplan Part 1. Women's Culture in Modern Jewish History 1. How Does a Woman Write? Or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own / Shulamit S. Magnus 2. Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship / Ismar Schorsch 3. Jews, Women, and Coffee in Early Modern Germany / Robert Liberles 4. Water into Blood: Custom, Calendar, and an Unknown Yiddish Book for Women / Elisheva Carlebach 5. "The Murdered Hebrew Maidservant of East New York": Gender, Class, and the Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin 6. Jewish Courtship and Marriage in 1920s Vienna / Marsha L. Rozenblit 7. "Did you bring any girls?" Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosúa, the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945 / Marion A. Kaplan 8. The Contribution of Gender to the Study of the Holocaust / Dalia Ofer Part 2. Gendered Dimensions of Religious Change 9. Women in the Thought and Practice of the European Jewish Reform Movement / Michael A. Meyer 10. German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women: The Views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer / David Ellenson 11. Gender and Conversion Revisited / Todd M. Endelman 12. The Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times / ChaeRan Y. Freeze 13. Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan / Anne Lapidus Lerner 14. Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodiment, and Women in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods / Chava Weissler 15. Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought / Claire E. Sufrin Part 3. Jewish Politics in American Accents 16. "The Call to Action": Margaret Sanger, the Brownsville Jewish Women, and Political Activism / Judith Rosenbaum 17. "Too Good to Have Been Made by a Woman": American Jewish Women Artists as Political Activists from the 1920s to the 1940s / Lauren B. Strauss 18. Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras / Deborah Dash Moore 19. Assembling Eichmann's Shackles / Deborah E. Lipstadt 20. Golda and the Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and the Personas They Denied / Michael Scott Alexander 21. Gendered Journeys: Jewish Migrations and the City in Postwar America / Lila Corwin Berman 22. Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture / Beth S. Wenger Afterword: An Emancipating Experience: The Jews of France in Paula Hyman's Oeuvr...
