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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... Israel before returning to 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 ...
... Israel before returning to 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 ...
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... Israel , had made choices other than the ones we were to make . Most of them had never and would never spend four years at Columbia University or the University of Pennsylvania . Many had uni- versity degrees , but it was always ...
... Israel , had made choices other than the ones we were to make . Most of them had never and would never spend four years at Columbia University or the University of Pennsylvania . Many had uni- versity degrees , but it was always ...
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... Israel before moving on to university was merely an extrapolation of the " Torah U'Madda " approach that made Torah a morning activity and Madda an afternoon one . Our time frame would be years now rather than days ; our map would be ...
... Israel before moving on to university was merely an extrapolation of the " Torah U'Madda " approach that made Torah a morning activity and Madda an afternoon one . Our time frame would be years now rather than days ; our map would be ...
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... Israel , eighteen years old and female . My cross- cultural education began with a lesson in language . The term " yeshiva " ( seminary ) , I quickly learned , did not apply to girls or women . In America , our teachers had talked about ...
... Israel , eighteen years old and female . My cross- cultural education began with a lesson in language . The term " yeshiva " ( seminary ) , I quickly learned , did not apply to girls or women . In America , our teachers had talked about ...
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... Israel and I explained that I'd come to learn in " yeshiva . " I'd used the wrong term , they explained . Girls and young women went to mikhlala ( women's college ) , not yeshiva . It was what we might call a semantic difference ; it ...
... Israel and I explained that I'd come to learn in " yeshiva . " I'd used the wrong term , they explained . Girls and young women went to mikhlala ( women's college ) , not yeshiva . It was what we might call a semantic difference ; it ...
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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