Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from March 22 2006

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from March 22 2006

Introduction.(Yemenite Jewish women)(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... One description that was always associated with the Yemenite Jewish woman was "kol kevudah bat melekh penimah" (Ps. 45:14), according to its traditional understanding: "She is honored as a princess within the confines of her home." Yet, these...

The bride's henna ritual: symbols, meanings and changes.
March 22, 2006... The bride's henna ritual was the principal rite of passage for women in Yemen. This ritual was an important stage in preparing the bride for her new life, as she changed from a girl-youth into a man's wife, became separated from her family, and...

Marriage and divorce customs in Yemen and Eretz Israel.
March 22, 2006... Until the Yemenites' mass immigration to Israel in the years before and immediately after the establishment of the State, Yemenite Jewry preserved several marriage and divorce customs based on the rulings of the Talmud and of Maimonides that...

Ma khabar and Qussat Hannah: a gendered reading of two stories in the culture of Yemenite Jewish women.
March 22, 2006... In this article, I suggest a new reading of two Yemenite Judeo-Arabic texts translated for and read to women: Ma khabar hadhah al-laylah (What happened on this night?) for the Passover Seder and Qussat Hannah (The story of Hannah) for the eve...

Metamorphosis through philanthropy: Yemenite women in New York.
March 22, 2006... In the late 1920s and early 1930s, a few groups of Yemenite Jews settled in New York City, having arrived in the United States via Eretz Israel (Palestine). This study concentrates on the immigrant women's charitable and organizational efforts....

Women resisting men: inheritance and disinheritance in the Yemenite Jewish community in mandatory Palestine.
March 22, 2006... Yemenite (1) Jewish women immigrated to Palestine mostly from the rural-tribal areas of Yemen, where both Muslim and Jewish women usually did not inherit property. In Palestine the situation was different, especially following the British...

Who's the fairest of them all? Women, womanhood, and ethnicity in Zionist Eretz Israel.
March 22, 2006... This article examines the ways Zionist aspirations towards women, womanhood, and ethnicity materialized in the pre-state era, focusing on the Queen Esther contest as an example. I maintain that selecting Yemenite women as "queens" enhanced the...

Orientalism, the body, and cultural politics in Israel: Sara Levi Tanai and the Inbal Dance Theater *.
March 22, 2006... This article analyzes the unique position of Sara Levi Tanai (1910/1911-2005) in the artistic scene of the yishuv and the first decades of the State of Israel. Using a micro-level perspective--the biography of a woman artist--I evaluate macro...

Between Lulu and Penina: the Yemenite woman, her jewelry, and her embroidery in the new Hebrew culture.
March 22, 2006... Even in its early stages, the Hebrew culture in Eretz Israel molded the image of the Yemenite Jews according to the duality in its perception of Eastern Jews: as exotic types on the one hand, but as bearers of a primitive, materialistic,...

A profile of artist Michal (Miki) Kehati, Yemenite / Israeli citizen of the world.(Resident Artist)
March 22, 2006... Michal (Miki) Kehati's paintings, collages, and prints, with their dense layering of images and bold, frenetic designs, are born of a profound engagement with her Yemenite heritage, the rich artistic traditions of her forebears, and a...

Why, Why, O My Beloved: A Wife's Rebuke to Her Husband Who Took a Rival Wife.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... WHY, WHY, O MY BELOVED A Wife's Rebuke to Her Husband Who Took a Rival Wife Why, why, O my beloved, Why do you inflict a rival wife upon me? If it is on account of my beauty, I am the Moon and the Pleiades. If...

No More Important Men.(FIVE POEMS)(translated by Yaffah Berkovits Murciano)(Poem)
March 22, 2006... NO MORE IMPORTANT MEN I don't want any more Important men Clever men, rich men I don't want to be Their wife any more I want to be These things myself No more favors for me I no longer need A...

Dish.(FIVE POEMS)(Poem)
March 22, 2006... DISH Mother cooked meat in the pot, a tasty dish to make you healthy. They cooked me in a song --alive-- to make you happy. Someone slaughtered me. A ritual slaughter! --make no mistake--...

I Came to You.(FIVE POEMS)(Poem)
March 22, 2006... I CAME TO YOU I came to you beaten wretched, silent, You held out your arms, fists tightly clenched, to wrap me in your choking embrace I came to you not wanting to, led to the slaughter like a...

When I Grow Up.(FIVE POEMS)(Poem)
March 22, 2006... WHEN I GROW UP When I grow up I'll be a high-society lady I'll be rich I'll be almighty My maids and servants will be at the ready When I grow up I'll be different from Shem I'll be a light Blond ...

Primitrivial.(FIVE POEMS)(Poem)
March 22, 2006... PRIMITRIVIAL Primitrivial Her langwich a mess. Primitrivial She doesn't make up her face. Short and embarrassed, She doesn't get along. Either silent or stuttering, She's always late for what's going on....

Unraveling the yarn: intertexuality, gender, and cultural critique in the stories of Dvora Baron.
March 22, 2006... This article examines Dvora Baron's prolonged attention to the east European shtetl, and her intertextual strategy, by which she makes broad, sophisticated use of rabbinic and other traditional Jewish texts. It does so though a critical reading...

Vanessa L. Ochs: Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons from the Wisdom and Stories of Biblical Women.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Vanessa L. Ochs Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons from the Wisdom and Stories of Biblical Women New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. 233 pp. The midrashic impulse is the gift of modern Jewish women to biblical women, bringing them life and voice....