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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... study , sing , and pray con- versantly in Hebrew . I do not know precisely why my parents chose to move left into Conservative Judaism for the period of my childhood and early adolescence . I do know that both my PREFACE xi.
... study , sing , and pray con- versantly in Hebrew . I do not know precisely why my parents chose to move left into Conservative Judaism for the period of my childhood and early adolescence . I do know that both my PREFACE xi.
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... " without distinguishing between male and female students and institutions . But when I got to Israel , conversations in Hebrew came to a standstill when Jews , both religious and secular , asked me why I'd come to PREFACE XV.
... " without distinguishing between male and female students and institutions . But when I got to Israel , conversations in Hebrew came to a standstill when Jews , both religious and secular , asked me why I'd come to PREFACE XV.
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... Hebrew and Aramaic , a rich collection of classical Judaic texts ; and Madda , which went from left to right , its titles in English , an unending cascade of novels , essays , poetry , and drama spanning the fourteenth through twentieth ...
... Hebrew and Aramaic , a rich collection of classical Judaic texts ; and Madda , which went from left to right , its titles in English , an unending cascade of novels , essays , poetry , and drama spanning the fourteenth through twentieth ...
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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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