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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... , every season of the year . This school would never end . When our parents and teachers evoked this world for us , in most cases it was not because they envisioned it as sufficient for a lifetime — not our lifetimes in any case X PREFACE.
... , every season of the year . This school would never end . When our parents and teachers evoked this world for us , in most cases it was not because they envisioned it as sufficient for a lifetime — not our lifetimes in any case X PREFACE.
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... never and would never spend four years at Columbia University or the University of Pennsylvania . Many had uni- versity degrees , but it was always remarkable , always worth mentioning , when those degrees came from secular institu ...
... never and would never spend four years at Columbia University or the University of Pennsylvania . Many had uni- versity degrees , but it was always remarkable , always worth mentioning , when those degrees came from secular institu ...
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... of their parents before them , my parents ' commitment to Jewish education ran deep and strong . It would never have occurred to them to allow me or my siblings to skip high school , to send us out into the world xii PREFACE.
... of their parents before them , my parents ' commitment to Jewish education ran deep and strong . It would never have occurred to them to allow me or my siblings to skip high school , to send us out into the world xii PREFACE.
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... in practice what they had never precisely said aloud : the reconciliation of modernity and tradition was actually rather difficult and required what my bubbi ( grand- mother ) would have called some " finagling " or xiv PREFACE.
... in practice what they had never precisely said aloud : the reconciliation of modernity and tradition was actually rather difficult and required what my bubbi ( grand- mother ) would have called some " finagling " or xiv PREFACE.
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... never had before . A Jewish woman could not elude her body , could not slip out of it as the Jewish girl could . My body , suddenly mean- ingful , was also indivisible . I could be in only one place at one time , within one community ...
... never had before . A Jewish woman could not elude her body , could not slip out of it as the Jewish girl could . My body , suddenly mean- ingful , was also indivisible . I could be in only one place at one time , within one community ...
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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