Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from March 2007

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from March 2007

Women in the kibbutz: the "mixed blessing" (1) of neo-liberalism.
March 22, 2007... The first kibbutz, founded in 1910 as a modern Jewish egalitarian community, strove to fulfill democratic and egalitarian principles. Though gender equality was never fully implemented in the kibbutzim, from the 1920s on it nevertheless became...

The gendered display of work: the midday scene in an ultra-Orthodox street in Israel.
March 22, 2007... This study examines the spatialization of work and gender in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel. In this community, most adult men (about 70%) are voluntarily not employed and devote their time to the study of Judaism's holy texts....

Absent fathers, present mothers: images of parenthood in Holocaust survivor narratives.
March 22, 2007... Mothering and motherhood figure prominently in the personal narratives of women survivors of the Holocaust. In contrast, men identified as father figures are conspicuously absent from both women's and men's personal narratives, and fatherhood...

"Dignity of the congregation" as a defense mechanism: a halakhic ruling by Rabbi Joseph Messas.
March 22, 2007... This article seeks to cast light on a halakhic responsum of Rabbi Joseph Messas, one of the great halakhic authorities of the twentieth century in North Africa. The responsum deals with the questions of whether a barrier between men and women...

Gender theory and gendered realities: an exchange between Tamar Ross and Judith Plaskow.(The View from Here)
March 22, 2007... The initial exchange between Judith Plaskow and Tamar Ross took place at the closing session of an international conference on "Religion, Gender and Society" held at Bar Ilan University on May 21-22, 2006. For its publication in Nashim, Plaskow...

Tikva Simone Frymer-Kensky, 1943-2006.(In Memoriam)(In memoriam)
March 22, 2007... My teacher, colleague and friend, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, died on Thursday, August 31, 2006/7 Elul 5766, at age 62, after battling misdiagnosed breast cancer for four years. At the time, she was Professor of Hebrew Bible and the History of Judaism...

Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson (eds.) Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson (eds.) Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson are European Jews (based, respectively, in Germany and England) whose edited...

Hannah Safran: Don't Wanna Be Nice Girls: The Struggle for Suffrage and the New Feminism in Israel.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Hannah Safran Don't Wanna Be Nice Girls: The Struggle for Suffrage and the New Feminism in Israel Haifa: Pardes Publications, 2006. We live in a time of powerful forces that operate to isolate us--to disconnect us from each other, from...

Esther Fuchs (ed.) Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Esther Fuchs (ed.) Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xv + 342 pp. Israeli Women's Studies or Studies about Israeli Women? Israeli Women's Studies is a collection of...

Gabrielle Herz: The Women's Camp in Moringen: A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gabrielle Herz The Women's Camp in Moringen: A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937 New York-Oxford: Berg, 2006. 183 pp. A Tragic Footnote It is a rare and memorable moment for a historian when she encounters an entire book...

Gerta Vrbova: Trust and Deceit: A Tale of Survival in Slovakia and Hungary, 1939-1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gerta Vrbova Trust and Deceit: A Tale of Survival in Slovakia and Hungary, 1939-1945 London: Vallentine-Mitchell, 2006. 208 pp. Not often have I agreed to review books, and when I have, it has always been within the well-defined boundaries...

Judith Baskin: Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Judith Baskin Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature Hanover-London: Brandeis University Press, 2002. 232 pp. For all of us teaching Jewish women's studies, Midrashic Women is an important work. This is the...

Jewish women as providers in the generations following the expulsion from Spain.
March 22, 2007... This article deals with Jewish women's involvement in economic life in the Ottoman Empire following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Throughout the sixteenth century, both married and unmarried women were active not only in...

Introduction.
March 22, 2007... This issue of Nashim presents five papers on the theme of Jewish women in the economy. In "The Scholarly life--The Laboring Wife: Gender, Torah and the Family Economy in Rabbinic Culture," Gail Labovitz depicts how rabbinic culture in the...

Joining the faculty club: Jewish women academics in the United States.
March 22, 2007... In the United States, both Jews and women encountered major obstacles in attempting to pursue academic careers before World War II. Aspiring Jewish women academics faced both antisemitism and sexism and had to surmount even more daunting...

The scholarly life--the laboring wife: gender, Torah and the family economy in rabbinic culture.
March 22, 2007... Common Western stereotypes about men and women and their relationships to labor and production often influence how we view these matters even in non-modern contexts, such as rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity. In fact, notwithstanding modern...