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Next year I will know more : literacy and identity among young Orthodox women in Israel / Tamar El-Or ; translated by Haim Watzman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
El-Or, Tamar.
Contributor:
Watzman, Haim.
Series:
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
Standardized Title:
Be-Fesah ha-ba. English
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jewish religious education of women--Israel.
Jewish religious education of women.
Women religious Zionists--Israel--Social conditions.
Women religious Zionists.
Women religious Zionists--Israel--Interviews.
Orthodox Judaism--Israel.
Orthodox Judaism.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Feminism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (333 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2002.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Focusing on the experiences of religious women who participated in a midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, this book explores the spreading practice of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious Zionist community.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I: The Research Site and Methods 23
1: The Demand for Midrashot 25
2: Fieldwork as Homework 53
II: Next Pesach-Biographies of Students and Their Analysis 87
3: Biographies of Torah Learners 89
4: Six Colors-Many Voices 131
III: Dialogues on Torah Study and the Constitution of Identity 173
5: Between Joy and Enslavement-Constructing the New Mother 175
6: Between Yavne and Jerusalem-Nationality and Citizenship: An Aggadah Class 207
7: Between Torah and Science-The Last Modernists: A Class in the
Philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook 233
IV: Anthropology and Literacy-From Critique to Participation 263
Leah's Tallit 263
Not Obligated but Able 280
Literacy on Anthropology and Vice-Versa-Condusion 290
Epilogue: Is It a Real Revolution? Three Stations 293
Notes 301
List of References 315
Index 323.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.
ISBN:
9780814337783
0814337783
OCLC:
849944823

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