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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Página ix
... young Jews , in home and school , would come to its end , and we would no longer come and go constrained , gifted by the demands and abundances of the " double curriculum . " Then the true test of our childhood educations would arrive ...
... young Jews , in home and school , would come to its end , and we would no longer come and go constrained , gifted by the demands and abundances of the " double curriculum . " Then the true test of our childhood educations would arrive ...
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... young American parents in the 1970s was its egalitarianism . Where Orthodox institutions were domi- nantly structured by divisions of sex , Conservative Jewish leaders and rabbis were following more closely and more quickly the pulse of ...
... young American parents in the 1970s was its egalitarianism . Where Orthodox institutions were domi- nantly structured by divisions of sex , Conservative Jewish leaders and rabbis were following more closely and more quickly the pulse of ...
Página xiii
... 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 rejected the rejectionism PREFACE xiii.
... 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 rejected the rejectionism PREFACE xiii.
Página xvi
... 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 of two terms for what I'd thought was one separate but equal ...
... 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 of two terms for what I'd thought was one separate but equal ...
Página xvii
... Beit Midrash that existed when I was eighteen , nineteen , twenty , or twenty - five , for a young woman who wanted to learn and some day to teach . HOUSES OF STUDY Binah ותן בלבנו להבין ולהשכיל לשמוע ללמוד PREFACE xvii.
... Beit Midrash that existed when I was eighteen , nineteen , twenty , or twenty - five , for a young woman who wanted to learn and some day to teach . HOUSES OF STUDY Binah ותן בלבנו להבין ולהשכיל לשמוע ללמוד PREFACE xvii.
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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