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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... novel . The novel : its tight , beautiful , intricate coherences ; its echoes and foreshadowings ; its subtle essences streaming subterranean , erupting into full sense only at the end or in the moment of re- reading , when the loving ...
... novel . The novel : its tight , beautiful , intricate coherences ; its echoes and foreshadowings ; its subtle essences streaming subterranean , erupting into full sense only at the end or in the moment of re- reading , when the loving ...
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... novel or oeuvre we have loved : the dream of not - having - read- yet . Of having this novel , this author , in our future rather than our past . Surprised by the difficulty of writing on my favorite author , I made a plan . I would do ...
... novel or oeuvre we have loved : the dream of not - having - read- yet . Of having this novel , this author , in our future rather than our past . Surprised by the difficulty of writing on my favorite author , I made a plan . I would do ...
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... novel I had ever read - every fea- ture had seemed the mark of the author's private imagination , each one and all in their aggregate making their claims upon my admiration . But with each of the thirty novels I read over approximately ...
... novel I had ever read - every fea- ture had seemed the mark of the author's private imagination , each one and all in their aggregate making their claims upon my admiration . But with each of the thirty novels I read over approximately ...
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