Lubavitcher women in America : identity and activism in the postwar era / Bonnie J. Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Bonnie J., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Judaism--United States.

Women in Judaism.

Habad--United States.

Habad.

Jewish women--Religious life--United States.

Jewish women.

Jewish women--Religious life.

Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)--Religious life and customs.

Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.).

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Summary:

Lubavitcher Women in America offers a rare look at the world of Hasidic women activists since World War II. The revival of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the second half of the twentieth century has baffled many assimilated American Jews, especially those Jewish feminists hostile to Orthodox interpretations of women's roles. This text gives voice to the lives of those Hasidic women who served the late Lubavitcher Rebbe as educators and outreach activists, and examines their often successful efforts to recruit other Jewish women to the Lubavitcher community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Contents:

Introduction: A Feminist Historian's Intentions 1

1. A Woman of Valor, Who Can Find? 13

2. Educate a Child According to His Ways 29

3. Ingathering Those That Were Far Away: The Neshei Chabad Conventions 55

4. Everything Emanates from the Woman 78

5. Whatever Is Happening in the Gentile World Is Reflected in the Jewish World: Reactions to Feminism 100

6. We Must Live with the Times 123

Hasidic Historiography 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.

ISBN:

079143799X

0791438007

OCLC:

37261054