Gender and Jewish History

By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past, this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s.Gender and Jewish Historyconsiders the impact of gender on Jewish religious practices and political behaviour, educational accomplishments and communal structures, acculturation and choice of occupations. The book stimulates conversations on such topics as Jewish women's creativity and spirituality, violence against women, Jews' reactions to persecution in the Holocaust, and Judaism as lived religion and culture. Honouring Paula Hyman, one of the founders of Jewish gender studies, this volume shows gender to be an eye-opening entry into realms of Jewish history previously untouched by it.

Marion A. Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Women's Culture in Modern Jewish History
How Does a Woman Write? Or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own	p. 13
Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship	p. 27
Jews, Women, and Coffee in Early Modern Germany	p. 44
Water into Blood: Custom, Calendar, and an Unknown Yiddish Book for Women	p. 59
"The Murdered Hebrew Maidservant of East New York": Gender, Class, and the Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora	p. 72
Jewish Courtship and Marriage in 1920s Vienna	p. 88
"Did you bring any girls?" Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosúa, the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945	p. 104
The Contribution of Gender to the Study of the Holocaust	p. 120
Gendered Dimensions of Religious Change
Women in the Thought and Practice of the European Jewish Reform Movement	p. 139
German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women: The Views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer	p. 158
Gender and Conversion Revisited	p. 170
The Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times	p. 187
Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan	p. 203
Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodiment, and Women in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods	p. 215
Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought	p. 233
Jewish Politics in American Accents
"The Call to Action": Margaret Sanger, the Brownsville Jewish Women, and Political Activism	p. 251
"Too Good to Have Been Made by a Woman": American Jewish Women Artists as Political Activists from the 1920s to the 1940s	p. 267
Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras	p. 281
Assembling Eichmann's Shackles	p. 305
Golda and the Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and the Persons They Denied	p. 320
Gendered Journeys: Jewish Migrations and the City in Postwar America	p. 336
Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture	p. 350
Afterword: An Emancipating Experience: The Jews of France in Paula Hyman's Oeuvre	p. 367
Bibliography of Paula E. Hyman's Works	p. 383
List of Contributors	p. 389
Index	p. 395
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