Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from March 2004

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from March 2004

To our readers.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... In the cyber-age, international communication is a snap. E-mail slips off my desk in Jerusalem to the other side of the world, and responses bounce back in a matter of minutes. Indeed, ease of communication enables us to make Nashim a truly...

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... In her essay "The Lives of the Obscure," published almost eighty years ago, Virginia Woolf expressed an interest, shared by many readers then and since, in autobiography as a source of information about certain sorts of people who might...

"She sees that her merchandise is good, and her lamp is not extinguished at nighttime": Glikl's memoir as historical source.
March 22, 2004... Since David Kaufmann first published Glikl bas Leib's memoir somewhat more than a century ago, that work has become a classic of Jewish literature: a classic of the memoir genre, a classic of women's self-expression, and one of the most widely...

Kol Ishah: women and Pauline Wengeroff's writing of an age.
March 22, 2004... This is for Liba, daughter of Laya Yuda and Shulem Grossman, whose memory is a blessing, with love and gratitude Memoirs of a Peculiar Grandmother Sitting on a bench in a wood outside Minsk in 1898, an elderly Jewish woman gathered her...

Piety and female aspiration in the memoirs of Pauline Epstein Wengeroff and Bella Rosenfeld Chagall.
March 22, 2004... Twenty years separate the 1919 appearance of the second edition of Memoiren einer Grossmutter (A Grandmother's Reminiscences) by Pauline Epstein Wengeroff (1833-1916) (1) and the 1939 publication of Brenendike likht (Burning Lights) by Bella...

Discovering Puah Rakovsky.
March 22, 2004... Memoirs have served social and cultural historians well. With their anecdotal style, they provide glimpses into the everyday. When written far in the past, the ordinary events they describe make clear to us how much of a foreign country the...

Self, other, and community: Jewish women's autobiography.
March 22, 2004... Introduction Autobiography is the presentation of one's self. The self, however, cannot be understood in isolation; it must be explored in relation to others. Writers can take their starting points either as members of a community, for...

"Not a suffragist"? Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi on women and gender.
March 22, 2004... Dedicated to the memory of my mother, Shoshana Kleiner, a pioneer in Palestine/Israel (1902-2003) INTRODUCTION (1) The Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi Project Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi was a leading woman activist in the Yishuv (the pre-state...

The memoirs of a partisan from Salonika.
March 22, 2004... When reading a memoir, the historian seeks reflections of the period under discussion. It has been claimed concerning twentieth-century Jewish history that Jewish memories deal, more or less, with the trials of "uprootings, migrations,...

Eva Grlic: between silence and speech.
March 22, 2004... This article discusses the autobiography of a woman, Eva Grlic, who survived both the Holocaust and political detention. Called simply Sjecanja (Remembrances, 1997), (1) it spans most of the author's life, from the 1930s through the 1980s--that...

Intimate engagements: a holocaust lesson.
March 22, 2004... These words are dedicated to those who died because death is a punishment because death is a reward because death is the final rest because death is eternal rage These words are dedicated to those who died. These words are...

Writing biography as a relationship.
March 22, 2004... Writing a biography is usually considered a combination of historical scholarship and literary art. The biographer needs to investigate the life of her protagonist in the context of her or his time and culture. From fractions of information...

Getting women to talk about themselves: my role models of the previous generation.
March 22, 2004... "I never discuss my past," my mother-in-law said to me once. I had remarked to her that, having lived through the most important moments of Israel's history, she must have great stories. Suddenly, I realized that her past was indeed a mystery...

A life in art (1).
March 22, 2004... i. Even as a very young child, I knew how to draw. One day in fourth grade, when I was nine, the teacher told us to draw pictures of ourselves the way we would look "grown up." Most of the children filled their pages with childishly...

A life in art (2).
March 22, 2004... In the late 1960s, as I sought my own voice as an artist, I grew interested in incorporating self-portraits and first-person narratives into nay paintings, drawings, and prints. I wanted to be true to the images that populated my memory and my...

Sylvia Rothschild and Sybil Sheridan (eds.) Taking Up The Timbrel: the Challenge of Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sylvia Rothschild and Sybil Sheridan (eds.) Taking Up the Timbrel: The Challenge of Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today London: SCM Press, 2000. Are women "natural" ritual-makers, while men are "natural" theologians'? This was the...

David Golinkin: the Status of Women in Jewish Law: Responsa Jerusalem.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... David Golinkin The Status of Women in Jewish Law: Responsa Jerusalem: The Center for Women in Jewish Law of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, 2001. The publication of this volume by Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin is a significant...

Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna (eds.) Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna (eds.) Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England, 2001. xv + 322 pp. Although a good deal of research has...

Marc Lee Raphael (ed.) Gendering the Jewish Past with an Introductory Essay by Pamela S. Nadell.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Marc Lee Raphael (ed.) Gendering the Jewish Past with an Introductory Essay by Pamela S. Nadell Williamsburg, Virginia: Department of Religion, The College of William and Mary, 2002 In the essay that serves as the introduction to...

Elisabeth Malleier: Judische Frauen in Wien 1816-1938: Wohlfahrt--Madchenbildung--Frauenarbeit.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Elisabeth Malleier Judische Frauen in Wien 1816-1938: Wohlfahrt-Madchenbildung-Frauenarbeit Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2003. 352 pp. This book, based on the author's dissertation, deals with welfare, the education of girls, and...

Anat Zuria, Director: Purity.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2004... Anat Zuria, Director Purity 2002.63 minutes. www.wmm.com. Purity is a complex film about a complex topic. The traditional Jewish practice of family purity comprises myriad laws, customs, and attitudes regulating intimate contact between men...

Michal Aviad, Director: For My Children.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2004... Michal Aviad, director For My Children Israel, 2002.65 minutes. www.wmm.com. September 2000: In the kitchen of Michal Aviad's Tel Aviv apartment, her Italian-Israeli mother stands over the stove, stirring a homemade ragu. Speaking from...

Francine Klagsbrun: the Fourth Commandment--Remember the Sabbath Day.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Francine Klagsbrun The Fourth Commandment--remember the Sabbath day New York: Harmony Books, 2002 Francine Klagsbrun's The Fourth Commandment is a gentle, informative, guided walk through many of the salient and hidden aspects of the...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Three Daughters.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Letty Cottin Pogrebin Three Daughters New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Imagine the worst thing that could happen to a control freak in New York City. Yes, her Filofax blows off the top of her car as she merges onto the Henry...

Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.) The New Hebrew Women: Women in the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement from a Gender Perspective *.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.) The New Hebrew Women: Women in the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement from a Gender Perspective * Jerusalem: Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 2002.457 pp. For over forty years, historiographers...