Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among BooksUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2007 - 177 páginas To 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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... meant I had discovered a secret , one of a kind . I left it on Bubbi and Poppy's shelves because their home was a home of secrets , of dresser drawers to be pulled open , clos- ets to be rummaged through , and dusty books to be opened ...
... meant I had discovered a secret , one of a kind . I left it on Bubbi and Poppy's shelves because their home was a home of secrets , of dresser drawers to be pulled open , clos- ets to be rummaged through , and dusty books to be opened ...
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... meant , how it was spelled , or where it came from ( Yiddish ) , but I knew how to do it . It was new , my father teaching me . My aunt had not learned , nor my mother , certainly not my grandmothers nor any women before them . When ...
... meant , how it was spelled , or where it came from ( Yiddish ) , but I knew how to do it . It was new , my father teaching me . My aunt had not learned , nor my mother , certainly not my grandmothers nor any women before them . When ...
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... meant the challenge of figuring out what all those terms about church meant : vicars , parsons , surplices , par- ishes , synods , saints ' days . Figuring out the important differ- ences between Protestants and Catholics : all not ...
... meant the challenge of figuring out what all those terms about church meant : vicars , parsons , surplices , par- ishes , synods , saints ' days . Figuring out the important differ- ences between Protestants and Catholics : all not ...
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