Women in Judaism articles

Recent articles from Women in Judaism

Ethnicity, exogamy, and Zipporah.(Midianite Zipporah)
January 1, 2006... Abstract [1] In contrast to the book of Ezra, whose protagonists demand that Jews expel "foreign" wives, the story of the Midianite Zipporah, Moses' wife, affirms that foreign women are beneficial to Israel. Zipporah's circumcision of her son in Exodus 4 is the climax of a pattern in...

Living and dying for the law: the mother-martyrs of 2 Maccabees.
January 1, 2006... Abstract [1] The martyr texts of 2 Maccabees record the deaths of three mothers who sacrificed their lives, along with those of their sons, in order to uphold Jewish law under the persecution of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Two of these anonymous women are briefly mentioned as having been...

The synthesis of the mind and body in Cynthia Ozick's The Cannibal Galaxy.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Abstract [1] Hester Lilt, like many of Cynthia Ozick's female protagonists, is unabashshedly independent of men. A philosopher, European refugee, and single mother, she remains an enigma to the hero of the novel, Joseph Brill, who is both drawn to her intellectual brilliance yet repelled...

Ella Bat-Tsion--from love of woman to love of God.
January 1, 2006... Abstract [1] The paper presents the poet Ella Bat-Tsion as a distinctive voice in contemporary Hebrew poetry. In the 1970s and the 1980s, under her previous name, Gabriella Elisha she published five books of poetry surprising her readers with lesbian themes. During the 90's however, she...

At the Turn of Childhood--A New Fruit by Zelda: an annotated translation.
January 1, 2006... Introduction [1] The late orthodox Israeli poet Zelda Schneersohn-Mishkovsky (1914-1984), better known as Zelda, was a descendent of a lineage of illustrious rabbis. (1) Her father, Shelomoh Shalom Schneersohn, belonged to the prominent Schneersohn dynasty of Habad hasidic masters and...