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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Our training as 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 ...
Our training as 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 ...
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Today it seems to me that what Conservative Judaism had to recommend itself to
young American parents in the 1970s was its egalitarianism. Where Orthodox
institutions were domi- nantly structured by divisions of sex, Conservative Jewish
...
Today it seems to me that what Conservative Judaism had to recommend itself to
young American parents in the 1970s was its egalitarianism. Where Orthodox
institutions were domi- nantly structured by divisions of sex, Conservative Jewish
...
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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 of two terms for what I'd thought was one separate but equal ...
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 of two terms for what I'd thought was one separate but equal ...
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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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