And All Your Children Shall Be Learned Women

For women who think that traditional study is closed to them, or for men who feel that women should not learn Torah, or for any reader seeking to fully understand the value and history of Torah study and education in Judaism, And All Your Children Shall Be Learned will be both eye-opening and interesting, shedding light on a long-neglected topic, the contribution of women to the study of Torah.

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xix

On Torah, The Halakhic (Jewish Judicial) System, and a Philosophy of Jewish Education

1

(18)

Judaism Defined

2

(1)

Basic Theological Premises

3

(1)

The Torah

4

(4)

Post-talmudic Literature and the Halakhic (Jewish Judicial) System

8

(5)

Philosophy of Jewish Education

13

(6)

The Role and Status of the Jewish Woman as Viewed in Traditional Judaism

19

(36)

The Creation of Man and Woman and the Need to Relate

20

(5)

Woman as Individual

25

(3)

The Ideal of the Jewish Family

28

(3)

Attitudes toward Women

31

(4)

Work Outside the Home and the Concept of Self-Fulfillment

35

(4)

Status of Women in Jewish Law (Halakhah)

39

(16)

The Study of Torah by Women in Halakhic (Jewish Legal) and Extra-Halakhic Literature

55

(42)

Talmudic Jurisprudence

55

(2)

Study of Torah by Women in Pre-Twentieth-Century Legal Sources

57

(8)

Study of Torah by Women in Twentieth-Century Legal Sources

65

(6)

The Halakhic Issue in Light of Halakhic Processes

71

(18)

Study of Torah by Women in Extra-halakhic Sources

89

(8)

A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part I-The Biblical Period to the Middle Ages

97

(34)

Images of Biblical Women

98

(3)

Education in Biblical and Second Temple Periods

101

(5)

Women's Religious Roles in the Second Temple Period

106

(1)

Evidence for Formal Education in the Late Second Temple Period

107

(6)

The Mishnaic (or Tannaitic) Period

113

(11)

The Talmudic (or Amoraic) Period

124

(7)

A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part II - The Hegemony of Babylonian Authority and Its Aftermath in the East and West

131

(40)

Geonic, Post-Geonic, and Islamic Periods

131

(15)

General Background

132

(5)

Education of Women

137

(3)

Women Scholars

140

(6)

The Sephardic Centers of Spain, Provence, Italy, and Elsewhere

146

(8)

Spain

146

(1)

General Background

146

(2)

Views of Spanish Rabbis Concerning Women and Torah Study

148

(3)

Evidence for Education of Women

151

(3)

Provence

154

(1)

Italy

155

(14)

General Background

155

(2)

Evidence for Torah Study by Women

157

(1)

Women in the Synagogue

158

(1)

Women Scholars and Functionaries

159

(3)

Religious Literature for Italian Jewish Women

162

(4)

Communal Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

166

(3)

Other Non-Ashkenazic Centers

169

(2)

A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part III - Christian Europe in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries

171

(18)

Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

171

(13)

General Background

171

(2)

Synagogue as a Means of Education

173

(3)

Exclusion of Women from Formal Education Enjoyed by Males

176

(1)

Informal Education and the Existence of Women Scholars

177

(6)

Passing References to the Testimony of Women Concerning Jewish Law

183

(1)

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

184

(5)

Prominent Women

184

(3)

Education and the Average Woman

187

(2)

A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part IV - Christian Europe in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

189

(38)

Sixteenth Century

189

(13)

The Ascendancy of Eastern Europe

189

(4)

Prominent Jewish Women in the Sixteenth Century

193

(3)

Religious Literature for Women

196

(6)

Seventeenth Century

202

(13)

Women Scholars

202

(6)

Literature for Women and the Attitude toward Knowledge for Women

208

(4)

Evidence for Education of Women

212

(1)

Devotional Prayers for Women

213

(1)

Women Printers

213

(2)

Eighteenth Century

215

(12)

Woman Scholars

215

(4)

Devotional Literature

219

(4)

Forms of Education

223

(4)

A Historical Survey of Jewish Education for Women: Part V - The Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jewish World

227

(36)

General Background

227

(4)

Jewish Education

231

(15)

France

231

(1)

Italy

231

(1)

England

232

(2)

Germany

234

(4)

Eastern Europe

238

(3)

The Balkans, Islamic States, and Other Countries Influenced by the Alliance Israelite Universelle

241

(1)

Palestine

242

(1)

United States of America

243

(3)

Women Scholars

246

(11)

Hasidic Women

247

(5)

Lithuanian and Russian Women Scholars

252

(3)

Women Scholars around the World

255

(2)

Women Writers

257

(6)

The Establishment of Universal Jewish Education for Women: The Beth Jacob Educational Movement

263

(38)

Background

264

(10)

Sarah Schenirer-Founder of Bais Ya'akov: A Model in Educational Leadership

274

(2)

Establishment and Development of Bais Ya'akov

276

(13)

Ideology and Curriculum of the Beth Jacob Schools

289

(12)

Matrix of Change

296

(1)

Analysis and Conclusion

297

(4)

Afterword

301

(10)

Bibliography

311

(16)

Index

327

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