Women in Judaism articles from January 1 2003

Women in Judaism archives from January 1 2003

Ronit Matalon's ethnic masterpiece.('The One Facing Us')
January 1, 2003... [1] The One Facing Us (1995), Ronit Matalon's first novel is a work of immeasurable originality and force about cultural displacement and the search for roots. An astonishing ballast of narrative pyrotechnics, it synthesises the staple...

The Double Bond Primo Levi: a Biography.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Angier, Carole. The Double Bond Primo Levi: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 2002. I wanted to believe in him. I even needed to. I had hoped to put him up on a pedestal with all the others; Wiesel and Amery, Bettelheim and...

Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust--Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust--Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Weighing the Pen against the Gas Chamber ...

Eva's Story.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Linda D. Cirino. Eva's Story. Princeton: Ontario Press, 1999. 167 pp. Originally published: The egg woman. London : Woman's Press, 1997. $12.95 (paper), ISBN 0-86538-097-X. On a first reading, this is a simple love story, constructed around...

Raising the Sparks: a Personal Search for a Spiritual Home in Judaism.(Video Recording Review)
January 1, 2003... Davis, Chuck. Raising the Sparks: A Personal Search for a Spiritual Home in Judaism. Boulder, CO: Throughline Productions and Delphi Productions, 2001. Color. 60 minutes. VHS. This documentary video offers a dramatic glimpse into many...

No Room of their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Yael S. Feldman. No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction. Columbia University Press, N.Y., 1999 Lelo heder mishelahen: Migdar uleumiut biyetziratan shel sofrot israeliyot. Hakibbutz hameuchad, Tel Aviv, 2002 Winner of...

Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Fuchs, Esther (editor). Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation. Studies in the Shoah, Vol. XXII. Lanham, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 1999. It was only in the 1970s in the west that academic extrapolation of...

Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Naomi Graetz. Silence Is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating. Northvale, NJ and Jerusalem : Jason Aronson, 1998. 272 pp. Glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7657-6013-4. A perception has been held and...

"The Defense has Become the Prosecution:" Ezrat HaNashim, a thirteenth-century response to Misogyny.
January 1, 2003... Ezer kenegdo--if he is worthy, she is a helpmate; if he is not worthy, she is an opponent against him--Rashi on Genesis 2:18 [1] Rashi's famous comment to Genesis 2:18 encapsulates the medieval view of women as simultaneously necessary and...

A mystery on the tombstones: "Women's Commandments" in early-modern Ashkenazi culture.
January 1, 2003... Abstract In a cemetery in Alsace, many of the women's tombstones bear the inscription that the deceased kept the so-called "Women's Commandments." The article argues that two reasons may, among other reasons, account for this custom: one...

Changes in the social status of urban Jewish women in Iraq as the nineteenth century turned *.
January 1, 2003... Forward [1] During the nineteenth century Arab countries underwent an awaking process, which included their Jewish populations. This awakening manifested itself in the imitation of western models of education, culture, literature, poetry...