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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... early evening , we spoke English as we studied math , science , literature , and world history . This was our " double curriculum , " the fare of Jewish day school students across the United States . And the hope of parents and teachers ...
... early evening , we spoke English as we studied math , science , literature , and world history . This was our " double curriculum , " the fare of Jewish day school students across the United States . And the hope of parents and teachers ...
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... early life in synagogue were all lived among Conservative Jews . While my parents were not typical Orthodox Jews , they were not typical Conservative Jews either . They themselves had grown up in Orthodox synagogues ( a synagogue meant ...
... early life in synagogue were all lived among Conservative Jews . While my parents were not typical Orthodox Jews , they were not typical Conservative Jews either . They themselves had grown up in Orthodox synagogues ( a synagogue meant ...
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A Jewish Woman Among Books Ilana M. Blumberg. and early adolescence . I do know that both my mother and fa- ther grew up in second - generation American families whose practice had veered away from the strictures observed by the previous ...
A Jewish Woman Among Books Ilana M. Blumberg. and early adolescence . I do know that both my mother and fa- ther grew up in second - generation American families whose practice had veered away from the strictures observed by the previous ...
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... early marriages , often arranged ; the abundance of modestly dressed and wigged young mothers and grandmothers ; the short spans between generations work- ing to safeguard against change . Modern Orthodox as well as Conservative Jews ...
... early marriages , often arranged ; the abundance of modestly dressed and wigged young mothers and grandmothers ; the short spans between generations work- ing to safeguard against change . Modern Orthodox as well as Conservative Jews ...
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... early adulthood , I clung to the single ideal unquestionably shared by Jewish tradition and secular wis- dom . I believed that to learn was to live . To study and study and study was to become good , and possibly great , and , in any ...
... early adulthood , I clung to the single ideal unquestionably shared by Jewish tradition and secular wis- dom . I believed that to learn was to live . To study and study and study was to become good , and possibly great , and , in any ...
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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