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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... yeshiva high school grew nearer , ques- tions arose : for those of us who planned to attend a secular institution rather than a Jewish university such as Yeshiva Uni- versity or Stern College for Women , how would we continue to build ...
... yeshiva high school grew nearer , ques- tions arose : for those of us who planned to attend a secular institution rather than a Jewish university such as Yeshiva Uni- versity or Stern College for Women , how would we continue to build ...
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... yeshivas , who lived in Israel , had made choices other than the ones we were to make . Most of them had never and ... yeshiva day schools . They had attained fluency in modern He- brew and classical Judaic texts . My siblings and I ...
... yeshivas , who lived in Israel , had made choices other than the ones we were to make . Most of them had never and ... yeshiva day schools . They had attained fluency in modern He- brew and classical Judaic texts . My siblings and I ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 call a semantic difference ; it didn't change what I'd come to do . But the existence ...
... 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 call a semantic difference ; it didn't change what I'd come to do . But the existence ...
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Binah | 1 |
Houses of Study | 35 |
If They Be Two | 69 |
Tree Light Fruit | 147 |
Acknowledgments | 175 |
Discussion Questions | 179 |
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