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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... walls lined with shelves of books - books with brown spines , black spines , navy , maroon , gray spines with gold let- ters printed on them in Hebrew . The message was clear : these are words of value ; if you own these books , they ...
... walls lined with shelves of books - books with brown spines , black spines , navy , maroon , gray spines with gold let- ters printed on them in Hebrew . The message was clear : these are words of value ; if you own these books , they ...
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... walls the pain . I could not tell . When the walls held , I prayed , and after they fell , I prayed from underneath them . Yet even when one prays intensely , one lives in space , always particular space . Each morning as I would walk ...
... walls the pain . I could not tell . When the walls held , I prayed , and after they fell , I prayed from underneath them . Yet even when one prays intensely , one lives in space , always particular space . Each morning as I would walk ...
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... wall , never warmed up as I did at the back . I thought of her urgency to touch the wall , to be there already , to have been standing there . I waited still . After a few minutes , a young woman backed away from the wall ; her eyes ...
... wall , never warmed up as I did at the back . I thought of her urgency to touch the wall , to be there already , to have been standing there . I waited still . After a few minutes , a young woman backed away from the wall ; her eyes ...
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