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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... teachers : that a traditionally educated American Jewish child would come to see that she could live in both worlds — Jewish and secular — happily , healthily , without ( much ) compromise . Yet as I turned sixteen or so and our daily ...
... teachers : that a traditionally educated American Jewish child would come to see that she could live in both worlds — Jewish and secular — happily , healthily , without ( much ) compromise . Yet as I turned sixteen or so and our daily ...
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... 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.
... 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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... teachers and rabbis and some of our parents pressed us toward Torah study in Israel , they spoke of it as though it were its own good . But underneath that thought hovered the adult consideration , half spoken , half secret : per- haps ...
... teachers and rabbis and some of our parents pressed us toward Torah study in Israel , they spoke of it as though it were its own good . But underneath that thought hovered the adult consideration , half spoken , half secret : per- haps ...
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... teach- ers left school and our " generally " learned teachers arrived , had not been an overlap but a thorough , gaping fissure . Per- haps I would not have come to see this so arrestingly and so quickly had I not been born a girl . The ...
... teach- ers left school and our " generally " learned teachers arrived , had not been an overlap but a thorough , gaping fissure . Per- haps I would not have come to see this so arrestingly and so quickly had I not been born a girl . The ...
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... teaching them material in what Americans would call a mode of " frontal education , " the transmission of knowledge from the teacher's side of the desk to the student's . Yeshiva conjured rooms filled with long tables , men of all ages ...
... teaching them material in what Americans would call a mode of " frontal education , " the transmission of knowledge from the teacher's side of the desk to the student's . Yeshiva conjured rooms filled with long tables , men of all ages ...
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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