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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... Torah , Mishnah , Midrash , Jewish law , and history . In the afternoon and into the early evening , we spoke English as we studied math , science , literature , and world history . This was our " double curriculum , " the fare of ...
... Torah , Mishnah , Midrash , Jewish law , and history . In the afternoon and into the early evening , we spoke English as we studied math , science , literature , and world history . This was our " double curriculum , " the fare of ...
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... Torah , and Jewish thought and law been spent without a future of learning in mind ? Was Jewish learning just a practice of childhood , to be left behind when one " grew up " ? In the late 1980s ( as still today ) common practice ...
... Torah , and Jewish thought and law been spent without a future of learning in mind ? Was Jewish learning just a practice of childhood , to be left behind when one " grew up " ? In the late 1980s ( as still today ) common practice ...
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... Torah passed through their aisles but not ours . Though my elementary education was in Conservative Jew- ish day schools , by the time I reached high school , my parents found themselves without choices to make among schools . In all ...
... Torah passed through their aisles but not ours . Though my elementary education was in Conservative Jew- ish day schools , by the time I reached high school , my parents found themselves without choices to make among schools . In all ...
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... Torah U'Madda , " the remarkable synthesis of Jewish learning and Western secular knowledge garnered from ancient times to modern . No wonder we were in school from morning to night . What " Torah U'Madda " meant beyond the life of ...
... Torah U'Madda , " the remarkable synthesis of Jewish learning and Western secular knowledge garnered from ancient times to modern . No wonder we were in school from morning to night . What " Torah U'Madda " meant beyond the life of ...
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... 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 countries rather than classrooms . But the combination suddenly carried a ...
... 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 countries rather than classrooms . But the combination suddenly carried a ...
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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