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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... 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 from both ...
... 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 from both ...
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... school were not wholly aligned . I know also that my parents became adults in major Ameri- can cities and college towns in the late 1960s , not sites or an era known for fostering a ... high school , to send us out into the world xii PREFACE.
... school were not wholly aligned . I know also that my parents became adults in major Ameri- can cities and college towns in the late 1960s , not sites or an era known for fostering a ... high school , to send us out into the world xii PREFACE.
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... high school , my family's practice returned to the Orthodoxy neither branch of it had known comprehensively in three generations . But it was not an extreme " return , " like that of the penitent Baal T'shu- vah movement . It was a ...
... high school , my family's practice returned to the Orthodoxy neither branch of it had known comprehensively in three generations . But it was not an extreme " return , " like that of the penitent Baal T'shu- vah movement . It was a ...
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... high school , with a married religious woman 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 ...
... high school , with a married religious woman 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 ...
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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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