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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... Young and pretty , the one who listens and understands , is desired by men not her husband , envied by the wives of those men , coveted by their daughters . We ask her to adopt us , to bequeath to us her fate , blot out the fate of her ...
... Young and pretty , the one who listens and understands , is desired by men not her husband , envied by the wives of those men , coveted by their daughters . We ask her to adopt us , to bequeath to us her fate , blot out the fate of her ...
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... young women would like to believe her . They would like her to be timeless and wise , a sphinx , an oracle , anything , so long as there is something . And so they ask her questions . The Orthodox young women ask , will women one day ...
... young women would like to believe her . They would like her to be timeless and wise , a sphinx , an oracle , anything , so long as there is something . And so they ask her questions . The Orthodox young women ask , will women one day ...
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... young women in talleisim , in prayer shawls and head coverings that signify not only mar- riage , but also the sort of bowing one's head that male yar- mulkes indicate . Minyanim , prayer groups , pop up where the defining fea- tures ...
... young women in talleisim , in prayer shawls and head coverings that signify not only mar- riage , but also the sort of bowing one's head that male yar- mulkes indicate . Minyanim , prayer groups , pop up where the defining fea- tures ...
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