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

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

Marc Chagall's 1909 portraits of women *.
September 22, 2007... In 1909, Chagall painted the first known portrait of his future wife, Bella (Berta) Rosenfeld. Known as My Fiancee in Black Gloves, this painting is usually viewed as his expression of admiration and love for Bella, who, apparently, was then...

Contradictions about to break loose: radical ambivalence in the work of Annette Kleinfeld Lissauer.
September 22, 2007... It isn't uncommon when looking at writing and art work by women who came of age and developed their art identities in the twentieth century to see what might be characterized as a "trail of blood." In work after work women's silence implodes...

Finding home: the midrashic art of Siona Benjamin.
September 22, 2007... Siona Benjamin's identity as a minority "other" originates with her Jewish upbringing in Bombay, India, with its Hindu and Muslim majorities, and her attendance at Catholic and Zoroastrian schools. Undergraduate art school in Bombay and then...

The Antea Gallery, Kol Ha-Isha, Jerusalem: an interview with Rita Mendes-Flohr.(Interview)
September 22, 2007... Annette Kleinfeld Lissauer's exhibition "Stuffed" (see pp. 160-172 in this issue), curated by Sara Alimi, was exhibited at the Antea Gallery in Kol Ha-Isha, the Jerusalem Women's Center. Founded in 1994, Kol Ha-Isha is a nonprofit organization...

The woman who rises early.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Anyone who rises early in the morning is on his own. He gets himself over to the altar, he is Abraham, he is Isaac, he's the donkey, the fire, the knife, the angel, he's the ram, he is God.--Yehuda Amichai The woman who rises early is...

Ethnography of exclusion: initiating a dialogue with fundamentalist men.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... In this article I present the results of my fieldwork with ultra-Orthodox men, who are forbidden to interact with women. Specifically, I focused upon the world of young Torah scholars in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community in Israel....

Feminist Jewish philosophy: a response (1).
September 22, 2007... This article is an examination of the ways that feminist and feminist Jewish theorists and philosophers, in executing their perspectives and commitments--in terms of justice, gender, embodiment and relationships--offer new insights into how...

Yael Levine: Midreshei Bitya bat Par'oh; Vayehi behatzi halaylah.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Yael Levine Midreshei Bitya bat Par'oh; Vayehi behatzi halaylah Midrashim of Bitya, the Daughter of Pharaoh: A Study Companion for the Seder Night; "In the Middle of the Night": Additional Stanzas on Women (Hebrew) Published by the author,...

Julie G. Cwikel: Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Julie G. Cwikel Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism Columbia University Press, 2006. 613 pp. Julie Cwikel, a veteran scholar and health activist, is best known in Israel as the founder and director of the Center for...

Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer (eds.) Alice Shalvi (associate ed.) Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer (eds.) Alice Shalvi (associate ed.) Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia Jerusalem: Jewish Women's Archive-Shalvi Publishing, 2006. Electronic publication on CD-ROM. $200 The publication of a...

Meetings of past and present: the installations of multimedia artists Hana Iverson and Melissa Shiff.
September 22, 2007... Recent site-specific installations incorporating video and digital media by artists Hana Iverson and Melissa Shiff provocatively engage women's roles in relation to Jewish history and traditions, cultural and religious. Utilizing many of the...

Introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2007... A dateline designating the All Time Most Significant Defining Moments in my development as a Jewish woman feminist artist has to include me as a young girl, standing in the Museum of Modern Art. It's 1953, and I am gazing in astonished...

Censorship, politics and sexual imagery in the work of Jewish-American feminist artists.
September 22, 2007... Looking at the social and political context, this article examines sexual imagery in the visual art of nine Jewish-American feminist artists from the 1960s through the 1980s: Judith Bernstein, Judy Chicago, Martha Edelheit, Eunice Golden, Joyce...

Meredith Monk: between time and timelessness in Book of Days.
September 22, 2007... In Meredith Monk's classic feature-length film Book of Days, time plays a central role in creating a Jewish narrative that is simultaneously inside and outside time. Monk gives us a glimpse into the Middle Ages through a twentieth-century lens,...

Torah study, feminism and spiritual quest in the work of five American Jewish women artists.
September 22, 2007... While most contemporary American Jewish women artists (of the "second wave") have expressed their Jewish identity in art by engaging with historical and social issues (anti-semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, immigration, ethnicity, etc.)...