Jews and gender : the challenge to hierarchy / edited by Jonathan Frankel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frankel, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 16.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Hebrew literature.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Judaism--Book reviews.

Sex role.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.

Yiddish literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Yiddish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 16th volume in the Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features a symposium on the theme of Jews and gender. The articles show how a varied and controversial feminist approach can be applied to the field of Jewish studies.

Contents:

Contents; Symposium: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy; Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism; Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires; A Political Tradition? American Jewish Women and the Politics of History; The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots; Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah; The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature; The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women

Imagining "Masculinity" in the Jewish Fin de SiècleThe Modernist Erotics of Jewish Tradition: A View from the Gallery; Body-building, Character-building, and Nation-building: Gender and Military Service in Israel; Replaying the Rape of Dinah: Women's Bodies in Israeli Cultural Discourse; Jewish Women in Transition: A Comparative Sociodemographic Perspective; Essays; Bearing Witness to the "Differend": Jean-François Lyotard, the Postmodern Intellectual, and "the jews"; As Families Remember: Holocaust Memoirs and Their Transmission; Review Essays; Postmodernism and the Jewish Question

Beyond Heroism and Victimhood: Gender and Holocaust ScholarshipPeople of the Image; On the Brink of Peace? More Israeli Memoirs; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature and the Arts; Religion, Thought and Education; Zionism, Israel and the Middle East; Letter to the Editor; Response; Contents for Volume XVII; Note on Editorial Policy

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771405-6

1-280-53115-0

0-19-534977-6

1-4294-0221-0

OCLC:

476026491