Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among BooksTo learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. This was the lesson of both cultures of the Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which Ilana Blumberg was educated, with its commitment to traditional Jewish practice and ideas alongside an appreciation for modern, secular wisdom. But when the paths of Jewish tradition and secular wisdom inevitably diverge, applying this lesson can become extraordinarily tricky, especially for a woman. Blumberg’s memoir of negotiating these two worlds is the story of how a Jewish woman’s life was shaped by a passion for learning; it is also a rare look into the life of Modern Orthodoxy, the twentieth-century movement of Judaism that tries to reconcile modernity with tradition. Blumberg traces her own path from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic texts as well as 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 memoir asks, in an intimate and poignant manner: what happens when the traditional Jewish ideal of learning asserts itself in a body that is female—a body directed by that same tradition toward a life of modesty, early marriage, and motherhood? |
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Summer camp , elementary school , and my early life in synagogue were all lived
among Conservative Jews . While my parents were not typical Orthodox Jews ,
they were not typical Conservative Jews either . They themselves had grown up ...
Summer camp , elementary school , and my early life in synagogue were all lived
among Conservative Jews . While my parents were not typical Orthodox Jews ,
they were not typical Conservative Jews either . They themselves had grown up ...
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Again the quiet walks through sleep - laden campus , the sense that only a
strange species of university student rises so early to pray . But a change comes
to separate me from the familiarity of daily , weekly , yearly rhythms . For the first
time in ...
Again the quiet walks through sleep - laden campus , the sense that only a
strange species of university student rises so early to pray . But a change comes
to separate me from the familiarity of daily , weekly , yearly rhythms . For the first
time in ...
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The Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund provided valuable :
support at an early stage of writing . For sparing the time to read “ Binah ” and
respond thoughtfully though we had never met in person , I thank three inspiring
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The Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund provided valuable :
support at an early stage of writing . For sparing the time to read “ Binah ” and
respond thoughtfully though we had never met in person , I thank three inspiring
...
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Crítica de los usuarios - bostonian71 - LibraryThingA literate and literary memoir of a woman who grew up trying to reconcile the worlds of Orthodox Judaism and secularism and feminism. Blumberg explains very well the balancing act she didn't even know ... Leer comentario completo
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