Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among BooksU of Nebraska Press, 2009 M03 1 - 181 páginas Houses of Study is an eloquent memoir of a Jewish woman?s life and her efforts to reconcile the traditions of her faith with her belief in women?s equality and the pull of modern American living. Ilana M. Blumberg traces her path from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic texts alongside Anglo-American novels and biographies to a womanhood where the two literatures suddenly represent mutually exclusive possibilities for life. Set in ?houses of study,? from a Jewish grammar school and high school to a Jerusalem yeshiva for women to a secular American university, her intimate and poignant memoir asks what happens when the traditional Jewish ideal of learning asserts itself in a woman directed by that same tradition toward a life of modesty, early marriage, and motherhood. This Bison Books edition is updated with discussion questions. |
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... America First Nebraska paperback printing : 2009 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Blumberg , Ilana M. , 1970- Houses of study : a Jewish woman among books / Ilana M. Blumberg . p . cm . Originally published : c2007 ...
... America First Nebraska paperback printing : 2009 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Blumberg , Ilana M. , 1970- Houses of study : a Jewish woman among books / Ilana M. Blumberg . p . cm . Originally published : c2007 ...
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... American Jewish child would come to see that she could live in both worlds — Jewish and secular — happily , healthily , without ( much ) compromise . Yet as I turned sixteen or so and our daily household mail delivery became heavy with ...
... American Jewish child would come to see that she could live in both worlds — Jewish and secular — happily , healthily , without ( much ) compromise . Yet as I turned sixteen or so and our daily household mail delivery became heavy with ...
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... America to attend university . In these yeshivas Jewish texts would be both bread and water of life . In these houses of study there would be no afternoon periods of math , science , literature , or social studies . Instead , there ...
... America to attend university . In these yeshivas Jewish texts would be both bread and water of life . In these houses of study there would be no afternoon periods of math , science , literature , or social studies . Instead , there ...
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... American parents in the 1970s was its egalitarianism . Where Orthodox institutions were domi- nantly structured by divisions of sex , Conservative Jewish leaders and rabbis were following more closely and more quickly the pulse of American ...
... American parents in the 1970s was its egalitarianism . Where Orthodox institutions were domi- nantly structured by divisions of sex , Conservative Jewish leaders and rabbis were following more closely and more quickly the pulse of American ...
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... Americans imagine when they hear the term . " Orthodox " ) were recognizable and distinct from Modern Or- thodox Jews by virtue of their rejection of modernity : their eighteenth - century garb , their black hats and long coats , the ...
... Americans imagine when they hear the term . " Orthodox " ) were recognizable and distinct from Modern Or- thodox Jews by virtue of their rejection of modernity : their eighteenth - century garb , their black hats and long coats , the ...
Contenido
Binah | 1 |
Houses of Study | 35 |
If They Be Two | 69 |
Tree Light Fruit | 147 |
Acknowledgments | 175 |
Discussion Questions | 179 |
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