Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from March 2008

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from March 2008

On beyond gender: representation of God in the Torah and in three recent renditions into English.(The Torah: A Modern Commentary)(The Contemporary Torah)(The Torah: A Women's Commentary)
March 22, 2008... Three recently published English translations of the Torah refer to God in unusual ways: They offer the reader the rare experience of encountering the biblical God as a persona who is "beyond" gender. The three renditions, which are of...

Consuming words: memoirs by Iranian Jewish women.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Within the emerging genre of Iranian women's memoirs, Farideh Goldin's Wedding Song (2003) and Roya Hakakian's Journey from the Land of No (2004) are distinctive in that their authors are Jewish. While Goldin and Hakakian share the nostalgia...

On midwifery and gatekeeping: memoirs of a Jewish editor.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Both my grandmothers served as midwives early in their lives, while they still lived in Eastern Europe. They continued to foster the birthing of new life when they came to America, but their efforts increasingly were confined to their own...

Games and sets: women, media and sport in Israel.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The feminist critique of sport that has been sounded for over three decades concludes that the marginalization and trivialization of female athletes only serves to perpetuate male domination of women. Specifically within the Israeli context,...

In Memoriam: Chana Safrai (1946-2008), friend and colleague.(In memoriam)
March 22, 2008... Chana Safrai (1946-2008) was a friend, a colleague and a kindred soul. At a time when it was a matter of consensus that feminism, by any name, was politically incorrect in the Orthodox world, we stood together. Though our stance on several...

Testament of women.(Resident Artist (Guest))(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Stories of biblical women claim our individual and collective imagination and exert a powerful force in popular culture and fine art. Sarah and Hagar, Ruth and Naomi, Judith, Deborah and Miriam continue to provide archetypes, points of...

Aliza Lavie Tefillat Nashim: Jewish Women's Prayers Throughout The Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Aliza Lavie Tefillat Nashim: Tefillat Nashim: Jewish Women's Prayers Throughout The Ages Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth, 2005. 312 pp. (in Hebrew) The entry "Devotional Literature" by Kaufmann Kohler and Judah David Eisenstein...

Rochelle Millen: Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Rochelle Millen Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press-University Press of New England, 2004. 264 pp. Rochelle Millen's book, Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and...

Ilana M. Blumberg: Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Ilana M. Blumberg Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books Lincoln-London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 177 pp. When I went to Jerusalem in the late 1980s to meet the remarkable women teaching Judaism's sacred texts to women...

"The wisdom of women": from Epstein to Agnon.(Barukh Halevi Epstein, Shmuel Yosef Agnon)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... The exclusion of women from Torah study and the proper role of women in the Jewish family and society are the subject of both the little-known short story "Hakhmot nashim" (1943) by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and the chapter of the same name in...

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... As I prepare my Introduction for this first of two issues of Nashim dedicated to the theme of Women and Books, I find myself turning to Agav orha (Incidentally, 1960), a collection of sketches, letters and translations by the Hebrew writer...

Reading and modernization: the experience of Jewish women in Berlin around 1800.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... This essay focuses on the reading practices of a group of Jewish women who lived in Berlin in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The copious personal sources left by such women as Henriette Herz, Rahel Levin, Sara Meyer and...

An army of housewives: women's wartime columns in two mainstream Israeli newspapers.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... At the height of Israel's 1948 war, women's columns in the newspapers Ha'aretz and Ma'ariv offered readers advice, stories, and letters. They focused on domestic practices such as preparing food, sewing clothes, dressing fashionably and...

Portrait of the maskilah as a young woman.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Until about a decade ago, the nineteenth-century Hebrew Haskalah was considered a "male" arena, in terms of its authors, its readership and its focal subjects. This assumption lies behind analyses most both of Haskalah writings (which rested...