Author: Annie Atura Bushnell
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814349846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.
Matrilineal Dissent
Author: Annie Atura Bushnell
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814349846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814349846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.
Women of the Word
Author: Judith Reesa Baskin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.
Holy Dissent
Author: Glenn Dynner
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814335977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814335977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
Facing the Glass Booth
Author: Haim Gouri
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A detailed historical account of Adolf Eichmann's trial that changed attitudes toward Holocaust survivors in Israeli society.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A detailed historical account of Adolf Eichmann's trial that changed attitudes toward Holocaust survivors in Israeli society.
Emma Lazarus
Author: Emma Lazarus
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 155111285X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, “The New Colossus” (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 155111285X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, “The New Colossus” (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.
The JPS Guide to Jewish Women
Author: Emily Taitz
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827607520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This is an indispensable resource about the role of Jewish women from post-biblical times to the twentieth century. Unique in its approach, it is structured so that each chapter, which is divided into three parts, covers a specific period and geographical area. The first section of the book contains an overview, explaining how historical events affected Jews in general and Jewish women in particular. This is followed by a section of biographical entries of women of the period whose lives are set in their economic, familial, and cultural backgrounds. The third and last part of each chapter, "The World of Jewish Women," is organized by topic and covers women's activities and interests and how Jewish laws concerning women developed and changed. This comprehensive work is an easy-to-use sourcebook, synopsizing rich and diverse resources. By examining history and analyzing the dynamics of Jewish law and custom, it illuminates the circumstances of Jewish women's lives and traces the changes that have occurred throughout the centuries. It casts a new and clear light on Jewish women as individuals and sets women firmly within the context of their own cultural and historical periods. The book contains illustrations, boxed text, extensive endnotes, and indices that list each woman by name. It is ideal for women's groups and study groups as well as students and scholars.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827607520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This is an indispensable resource about the role of Jewish women from post-biblical times to the twentieth century. Unique in its approach, it is structured so that each chapter, which is divided into three parts, covers a specific period and geographical area. The first section of the book contains an overview, explaining how historical events affected Jews in general and Jewish women in particular. This is followed by a section of biographical entries of women of the period whose lives are set in their economic, familial, and cultural backgrounds. The third and last part of each chapter, "The World of Jewish Women," is organized by topic and covers women's activities and interests and how Jewish laws concerning women developed and changed. This comprehensive work is an easy-to-use sourcebook, synopsizing rich and diverse resources. By examining history and analyzing the dynamics of Jewish law and custom, it illuminates the circumstances of Jewish women's lives and traces the changes that have occurred throughout the centuries. It casts a new and clear light on Jewish women as individuals and sets women firmly within the context of their own cultural and historical periods. The book contains illustrations, boxed text, extensive endnotes, and indices that list each woman by name. It is ideal for women's groups and study groups as well as students and scholars.
Matrilineal Kinship
Author: David Murray Schneider
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Other Things Being Equal
Author: Emma Wolf
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A timely reissue of Emma Wolf's 1892 novel, which boldly interrogates the implications of Jewish-Christian marriage and examines the role of the "new woman" within the traditions of the Jewish home.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A timely reissue of Emma Wolf's 1892 novel, which boldly interrogates the implications of Jewish-Christian marriage and examines the role of the "new woman" within the traditions of the Jewish home.
Without Bounds
Author: Yoram Bilu
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a great Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Wazana is remembered by Moroccan Jews now living in Israel's urban and rural peripheries. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, they are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his jewish identity. Based on interviews with Moroccan Jews conducted in the late l980s, Without Bounds proposes multiple readings of Wazana's life. Yoram Bilu recreates the influences and important moments in Wazana's life and evaluates his character from psychological and anthropological perspectives. Human and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity. Without Bounds will fascinate the lay reader interested in mysticism as well as scholars of anthropology, comparative religion, Judaism, and contemporary Jewish and Israeli history.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a great Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Wazana is remembered by Moroccan Jews now living in Israel's urban and rural peripheries. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, they are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his jewish identity. Based on interviews with Moroccan Jews conducted in the late l980s, Without Bounds proposes multiple readings of Wazana's life. Yoram Bilu recreates the influences and important moments in Wazana's life and evaluates his character from psychological and anthropological perspectives. Human and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity. Without Bounds will fascinate the lay reader interested in mysticism as well as scholars of anthropology, comparative religion, Judaism, and contemporary Jewish and Israeli history.
Of No Interest to the Nation
Author: Gilbert Michlin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338488
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338488
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.