Jewish Women in Historical Perspective

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Contributors	p. 11
Editor's Note	p. 14
Introduction	p. 15
Portrayals of Women in the Hebrew Bible	p. 25
Jewish Women in the Diaspora World of Late Antiquity	p. 46
The Image and Status of Women in Classical Rabbinic Judaism	p. 73
Jewish Women in the Middle Ages	p. 101
Sephardi Women in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods	p. 128
Italian Jewish Women	p. 150
Prayers in Yiddish and the Religious World of Ashkenazic Women	p. 169
Emancipation through Intermarriage? Wealthy Jewish Salon Women in Old Berlin	p. 193
Engendering Liberal Jews: Jewish Women in Victorian England	p. 208
Tradition and Transition: Jewish Women in Imperial Germany	p. 227
The Women Teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1872-1940	p. 248
East European Jewish Women in an Age of Transition, 1880-1930	p. 270
Daughters of the Nation: Between the Public and Private Spheres in Pre-State Israel	p. 287
Gender and the Immigrant Jewish Experience in the United States	p. 312
Spiritual Expressions: Jewish Women's Religious Lives in the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 337
Index	p. 365
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