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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... Orthodox high school graduates , boys and girls both , were encouraged to spend a year of study in intensive , single - sex yeshivas in Israel before returning to America to attend university . In these yeshivas Jewish texts would be ...
... Orthodox high school graduates , boys and girls both , were encouraged to spend a year of study in intensive , single - sex yeshivas in Israel before returning to America to attend university . In these yeshivas Jewish texts would be ...
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... Orthodox Jews , they were not typical Conservative Jews either . They themselves had grown up in Orthodox synagogues ( a synagogue meant Ortho- dox in the 1940s and 1950s ) , Orthodox summer camps , and yeshiva day schools . They had ...
... Orthodox Jews , they were not typical Conservative Jews either . They themselves had grown up in Orthodox synagogues ( a synagogue meant Ortho- dox in the 1940s and 1950s ) , Orthodox summer camps , and yeshiva day schools . They had ...
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... 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 life . The 1970s mania to give trucks to girls and dolls ...
... 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 life . The 1970s mania to give trucks to girls and dolls ...
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... Orthodox high school , my family's practice returned to the Orthodoxy neither branch of it had known comprehensively in three generations . But it was not an extreme " return , " like that of the penitent Baal T'shu- vah movement . It ...
... Orthodox high school , my family's practice returned to the Orthodoxy neither branch of it had known comprehensively in three generations . But it was not an extreme " return , " like that of the penitent Baal T'shu- vah movement . It ...
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A Jewish Woman Among Books Ilana M. Blumberg. Modern Orthodox as well as Conservative Jews rejected the rejectionism just as vociferously as the ultra - Orthodox scorned the blending or reconciliation of cultures . We Moderns prided ...
A Jewish Woman Among Books Ilana M. Blumberg. Modern Orthodox as well as Conservative Jews rejected the rejectionism just as vociferously as the ultra - Orthodox scorned the blending or reconciliation of cultures . We Moderns prided ...
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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