Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among BooksHouses 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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Both my parents had gone to yeshiva day school in the 1950s and then college
and graduate school in the 1960s and 1970s; both my paternal grandparents had
completed graduate degrees by the end of the first third of the twentieth century.
Both my parents had gone to yeshiva day school in the 1950s and then college
and graduate school in the 1960s and 1970s; both my paternal grandparents had
completed graduate degrees by the end of the first third of the twentieth century.
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The term "yeshiva" (seminary), I quickly learned, did not apply to girls or women.
In America, our teachers had talked about our year of study in "yeshiva" without
distinguishing between male and female students and institutions. But when I got
...
The term "yeshiva" (seminary), I quickly learned, did not apply to girls or women.
In America, our teachers had talked about our year of study in "yeshiva" without
distinguishing between male and female students and institutions. But when I got
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religious and secular, asked me why I'd come to Israel and I explained that I'd
come to learn in "yeshiva." I'd used the wrong term, they explained. Girls and
young women went to mikhlala (women's college), not yeshiva. It was what we
might ...
religious and secular, asked me why I'd come to Israel and I explained that I'd
come to learn in "yeshiva." I'd used the wrong term, they explained. Girls and
young women went to mikhlala (women's college), not yeshiva. It was what we
might ...
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| Título | Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books |
| Autor | Ilana M. Blumberg |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | U of Nebraska Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0803224494, 9780803224490 |
| Largo | 181 páginas |
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