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2006
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Michele Byers (USA)
The Jewish Princess in Popular Culture
Susan J. Landau-Chark (USA)
Community, Identity and Religious Leadership as Expressed through the Role of the Rabbi's Wife
Marc Michael Epstein (USA)
Overthrowing the Idol: A Radical Reappraisal of Medieval Jewish Visual Tradition
Marcia Falk (USA)
The Book of Blessings for the Turning of the Year: New Prayers, Poems and Meditations for the High Holiday Season
Judy Bolton-Fasman (USA)
A Daughter Says the Kaddish: A Memoir
Terri Susan Fine (USA)
Triple Minorities in Majoritarian Systems: Jewish Female Elected Officials
Fiona Frank (SCOTLAND)
Hannah Frank, A Glasgow Jewish artist – Art, memory and identity through film and through text
Naomi Marmon Grument (ISRAEL)
The Intersection of Tradition and Modernity: An Examination of the Interface of Taharat Hamishpacha and Identity among Modern Orthodox Women and Men
Orit Kamir (ISRAEL)
Analysis of the Implementation and Effects of Israel's Sexual Harassment Law
Mirla Kano (USA)
Women Rabbis of New Mexico: The Politics and Performance of Life History
Heidi Kaufman (USA)
Maria Polack's Fiction Without Romance; A Critical Edition
Aviva Kempner (USA)
Gertrude Berg: America's Molly Goldberg
Melissa Klapper (USA)
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Pre-World War II Activism
Melanie Malka Landau (AUSTRALIA)
Kinyan and Its Discontents
Gail Levin (USA)
Lee Krasner: A Cultural Biography
Rachel Levin (USA)
A Secret for Seven Sisters (a novel based on the life of Shirley Greenblatt Patterson)
Ruth Loman (USA)
Premiere Performance of Testimony of Witnesses
Joan Roth (USA)
Photo Essay: Project Kesher Empowers Jewish Women in the CIS
Ellie Schainker (USA)
Gender and Assimilation Revisited: Jewish Conversion in Ninteenth-Century Russia
Merav Schnitzer (ISRAEL)
Sexual violence against women in the Jewish society in Germany and northern France ("Ashkenaz") in the 11th - 14th centuries
Susan G. Scott (USA)
Painting Women Painting: Portraits of Exclusion
Naomi Seidman (USA)
The Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz
Sarah Abrevaya Stein (USA)
Jews, Gender and Commerce: Jewish Women and Girls and the Global Ostrich Feather Trade
Megan Sullivan (NETHERLANDS)
Free Posenenske!
Ruth Tsoffar (USA)
Cannibal Ideology: Sexuality, Ethnicity and Colonialism in Hebrew Cultures
Orit Yafeh (ISRAEL)
Are you crying because (the Temple was) Destructed? Cultural construction of emotions in Ultra-Orthodox kindergartens for Girls
2005
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Helene Aylon (USA)
All Rise: An installation of a Beit Din as a "House" of Three Women
Eugen Avrutin (USA) & Robert Greene (USA)
The Story of a Life: The Memoirs of an Ordinary Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire
Carol Balin (USA) & Wendy Zierler (USA)
To Tread on New Ground: The Life and Writings of Hava Shapiro
Elisheva Baumgarten (Israel)
Gender and Piety: Religion and Practice in Medieval Jewish Society
Evelyn M. Cohen (USA)
Jewish Women and Manuscripts in Renaissance Italy
Marcia Falk (USA)
The Book of Blessings for the Turning of the Year
Marjorie C. Feinson (Israel)
Conspiracy of Silence: Domestic Violence and Disordered Eating A Community Study of Women in Israel
Miriyam Glazer (USA)
How Do You Dance Before the Bride? Judaism, Wars and Womanhood: Becoming a Rabbi at Sixty
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (Israel) & Eyal Katvan(Israel)
"Becoming a Person": Roza Ginzberg's Battle to become a Lawyer in Palenstine
Marilyn Lerner (Canada)
"Shake My Heart Like a Copper Bell." A song cycle composed by Marilyn Lerner to the poetry of Anna Margolin for voice, piano, clarinet and double bass
Hagit Molgan (Israel)
"Flute" (temporary name)
Ranen Omer-Sherman (Israel)
Jewish Women Writers and the Levant
Reina J. Rutlinger (Israel)
"The Audacity of Holiness": Orthodox Women's Theatre in Israel
Jen Taylor Friedman (USA)
Women and writing sifrei Torah-need niddah be a concern?
Leandra Zarnow (USA)
Mother Courage: Bella Abzug's Fight for Social Change in Cold War America
2004
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Pnina G. Abir-am (USA)
Jewish Women in American Science: The contrasting careers of Esther Zimmer Lederberg and Mildred Cohn 2004
Brielle Stark-Adler (USA)
Religiosity and the Jewish Woman’s Experience of Emerging Adulthood
Yaffa Aranoff (Israel)
The Image of Biblical Women in Hasidic Writings
Lynne Avadenka (USA)
“By A Thread" – A limited edition artist’s book based on the lives of Queen Esther and Scheherazade
Linda J. Borish (USA)
Not Merely Confined to the Gymnasium”: Jewish Women in American Sport
Judy Branfman (USA)
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails
Marcia Falk (USA)
Hidden Image (working title): A Collection of Poems
Amy Feinstein (USA)
Jewish Modernisms: Race, Religion, and Representation in works by Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and James Joyce
Tamar Hess (Israel)
Autobiographical Writings By Women of The Second Aliya
Ellen Kaplan (USA)
With Dream Awakened Eyes: A performance of Charlotte Salomon
Ruth Kark (Israel)
Biography and Gender in the mirror of the Yishuv: “The First Lady”, Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, from the Second Aliya to Eretz Israel Ha-shlema
Irit Koren (Israel)
Voice Is Heard in Ramah: Religious Women Challenge the Orthodox Wedding Ritual
Adi Kuntsman (Britain)
Sexuality, Immigration and National Identity: Russian-Speaking Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender in Israel
Susan K. Leshnoff (USA)
Friedl Dicker Brandeis as Holocaust Art Teacher: An Analysis of the Children’s Drawings in her Classes in Theresienstadt
Chia Longman (Belgium)
Life Stories of Orthodox Jewish Women in Antwerp: Negotiating Identity, Autonomy and Belonging
Yoel Perez (Israel)
Professional Women-Storytellers in Israel – Research on Jewish women artists
Dina Roginsky (Israel)
Yemenite or Israeli? East or West? Folklore or Art? Sara Levy Tanai and Inbal Dance Theatre
Lena Roos (Sweden)
A Family Perspective on Deteriorating Relations: The Use of Christian Wet Nurses in Medieval Ashkenazi Families
Sarah Maria Ross (Germany)
“Jewish-feminist music – a political issue? The use and function of Jewish women’s music in contemporary Judaism”
Lisa Grant & Diane Schuster (USA)
Towards New Way of Knowing: The Impact of Feminist Pedagogy on Jewish Learning and Identity in the Former Soviet Union
Michael Silber (Israel)
Spirituality, Gender And Jewish Fundamentalism: The Dreamworld Of a Nineteenth Century Ultra-Orthodox Woman
Miriam Sivan (Israel)
Besieged & Other Dramas
Tracy Ellen Sivitz (USA)
Gender and Jewish Politics: Women and American Jewish Life, 1920-45
Monica Szurmuk (Mexico)
The Gerchunoff Women: Pioneers in Argentina
Anika Walke (Germany)
Life stories of Soviet Jewish women surviving the Holocaust
Roni Weinstein (Israel)
Feminine religiosity in Jewish-Italian communities during the early modern period
2003
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Orit Avishai-Bentovim (USA)
Purity and the Politics of Jewish Women’s Bodies in Israel
Trudy Balch & Avital Bloch (USA & Mexico)
An English Edition of Gaby: An Autobiography of Mexican-Jewish Disability Rights Activist and Writer Gabriela Brimmer
Julia Creet (Canada)
“MUM,” A Video Memoir
Lois Dubin (USA)
Bella and Her Loves: Jewish Women, Marriage, and the State in Revolutionary and Restoration Italy
Lauren Erdreich (Israel)
Opening Identities of Change: Multiple Literacies of Palestinian Israeli Women at the University
Marcia Falk (USA)
The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda Translated from the Hebrew
Rachel Furst (Israel)
Converted Women and Communal Identity: The Frankfort Case of 1241
Naama Goldstein (USA)
Aide from Afar: A Novel
Sascha L. Goluboff (USA)
Wailing Women and Death Rites: An Ethnography of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan
Sonat Hart (USA)
Jewish Women’s Contribution to German and Austrian Cabaret
Melissa R. Klapper (USA)
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920
Catherine Lev (USA)
WomenofValor.net website
Yael Levine (Israel)
A Compendium of Siddur Commentaries Concerning Women in the Talmudic, Geonic and Rishonim Literature
Sheryl Mendlinger (Israel)
Knowledge Acquisition between Mothers and Daughters in the Area of Women’s Health Behavior: Aspects of Universality and Cultural Dependency
Michaela Mudure (Romania)
Neither Bruria, nor Lilith: The Tradition of Romanian-Jewish Women’s Writing
Katalin Pécsi (Hungary)
East-West Bridge Through Jewish Women’s Literature
Donna Schatz (USA)
“Balancing Acts,” Documentary Video Project on Hungarian Acrobat Magda Schweitzer and Her Husband, Chinese Acrobat Man Fong Tong
Mimi Weinberg (USA)
Sukkat Babatha: A Sculptural Installation
Eleanor P. Jacobson Women Of Valor Award
Michal Ben Ya’a’kov (Israel)
Historical Perspectives on Teacher Training for Religious Zionist Women — A Case Study of the Mizrachi Women’s Teachers’ Seminar, 1924-1953
2002
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Howard Adelman (Israel)
Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy
Penina Adelman (USA)
Searching for Eshet Chayil
Michele Bitton (France)
Bibliography of Jewish Women in France in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Rachel Feldhay Brenner (USA)
Back to the Land of Darkness: The Search for Post-Holocaust Redemption in Ruth Almog’s Fiction
Esther Carmel-Hakim and Yael Katzir (Israel)
Rama Lindheim Documentary Video
Sarah Blachor Cohen (USA)
Henrietta Szold: Healer and Peacemaker for our Time
Paula Doress-Worters (USA)
Ernestine L. Rose Sourcebook: Documenting the Contribution of a Polish-Jewish Immigrant to Women’s Rights in America
Nurit Govrin (Israel)
Schlomith Flaum: A Wandering Daughter of Israel
Yohai Hakak (Israel)
Masculine Identities in the Ultra Orthodox Community in Israel
Jennifer Hoyer (USA)
The Space of Words: Diaspora and Exile in the Works of Nelly Sachs
Barbara Johnson (USA)
Traditional Folk Songs of Cochin Jewish Women from South India and Israel
Carole S. Kessner (USA)
Marie Syrkin: A Life Beyond the Self
Andrea Kuti (Hungary)
Research and Educational Material for Jewish Women’s Seder in Hungary
Gail Labovitz (USA)
My Wife I Called ‘My House’: Marriage, Metaphor and Discourses of Gender in Rabbinic Literature
Gabriella Lev (Israel)
ODEM Theater Company
Rachel Levmore (Israel)
Female Rabbinical Court Advocates and the Changed Universe of Halachic Discourse within the Israeli Rabbinical Courts at the End of the Twentieth Century
Omi (Israel)
Birthlore and the Law of Birth in Israel
Yifat Peleg (Israel)
Archaeology, Burial and Gender in Judea
Eva Plach (Canada)
From the Pages of Ewa: A Weekly, 1928-1933: Polish-Jewish Women on Marriage, Mores and Social Change
Reina Reiner (Israel)
Orthodox Women’s Theater in Israel
Miriam Segal (Israel)
The Motherland Speaks: New Hebrews, Gender and the New Accent in New Yishuv Poetry
Margalit Shilo (Israel)
The Yishuv’s Campaign for Women’s Suffrage: A Reappraisal (1917-1926)
Elly Teman (Israel)
Surrogate Motherhood in Israel
Sophie Walsh (Israel)
Reorganization of a Sense of Self and Gender among Young Adult Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel
David Zurawik (USA)
Molly’s World: The Life of Gertrude Berg
2001
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Dianne Ashton (USA)
Domestic Judaism Goes Public: Women in the History and Construction of American Hanukkah
Pascale Bos (USA)
Return to Germany: German-Jewish Women Authors Seeking Address
Esther Carmel-Hakim and Yael Katzir (Israel)
“Rama Lindheim, Fulfilling a Dream,” Documentary Video on Rama Lindheim
Yossi Chajes (Israel)
The Voice of a Woman: A History of Jewish Women’s Spirituality
Emily Corbató (USA)
All Good Things: A Photographic Essay of Jewish Women in the Ukraine
Marianne Cutler (USA)
“There’s not that clique of JAPPY girls here”: Perceptions of Jewish Femininity and Masculinity among Young Jewish Adults in a Southern (U.S.) Community
Marcie Ferris (USA)
Matzoh Ball Gumbo, Gasper Goo Gefilte Fish, and Big Momma’s Kreplach: Exploring Southern Jewish Foodways
Frieda Forman (Canada)
Holocaust Refugees in Switzerland: A Feminist Perspective
Dafna Hirsch (Israel)
Gender and the Zionist ‘New Man’: Hygiene Education in the Yishuv and the Early Years of the Israeli State
Barbara Johnson (USA)
Vernacular Jewish Women’s Folk Songs from South India
Irena Klepfisz and Helen Epstein (USA)
An International Guide to Jewish Women’s Memoirs
Gail Levin (USA)
Beyond the Pale: Jewish Identity, Radical Politics and Feminist Art
Keren McGinity (USA)
Tying the Knots: Jewish Women, Intermarriage and Gender in America
Pnina Motzafi-Haller (Israel)
Self Construction as Resistance: Ethnicity, Religiosity and Gender among Lower-Class Mizrachi Women in Israel
Tova Stabin (USA)
Bibliography on Poor and Working Class Jewish Women
Sonia Zylberberg (Canada)
Rituals of Identity and Resistance: Contemporary Jewish Women’s Seders
2000
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Denise Roman Brook (USA)
Jewish Women in Romania: A Feminist Cultural Approach
Kathi Diamant (USA)
Kafka’s Last Love: The Mysteryof Dora Diamant
Edward Fram (Israel)
“My Dear Daughter”: Teaching the Laws of Women to Women in Pre-Modern Ashkenaz
Alice Friedman (USA)
Building the Dream: Jewish Women, Architecture and Social Mobility in Postwar America
Thalia Gur-Klein (Netherlands)
Some Like Them Iconized: Jewish Female Saints
Rachel Gutman (USA)
Domestic Violence in the Orthodox Community
Chana Revell Kotzin (USA)
The Adult Bat-Mitzvah Phenomenon, 1950-2000
Nancy Lefenfeld (USA)
The Last Convoy: Two Jewish Women Who Smuggled Children from France to Switzerland During WWII
Ruth Lomon (USA)
“Witnesses,” Oratorio Based on Poems by Holocaust Victims
Natan Meir (USA)
Jerusalem of Russia: Women in Late Imperial Kiev
Anna Polland (USA)
Adaptation of Ritual: Immigrant Jewish Women, their Families and Holidays, 1880-1930
Einat Ramon (Israel)
Philosophical and Hermeneutical Features of Jewish Feminist Thought and Practice
Tamar Ross (Israel)
Can Judaism Sustain a Feminist Critique?
Janice Rubin (USA)
The Mikvah Project: A Traveling Exhibition of Photographs
Niina Tarma (Finland)
Jewish Women and Men in the Continuation War, 1941-1944
Diane Wolfthal (USA)
Visualizing Women’s Ritual Roles in Italian Renaissance Yiddish Seforim Minhagim
1999
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Ann Beaglehole (New Zealand)
New Zealand Jewish Women and Education
Michal Ben Ya’akov (Israel)
Women and Housing: Jewish Women in 19th Century Eretz Israel
Kimmy Caplan (Israel)
Between Popular Religion and Informal Education: Haredi Women Preachers in Israel
Debora Duerksen (USA)
“We were in it, too!: American Jewish Women Veterans Remember World War II,” Documentary Film Project
Tamar El-Or (Israel)
Another Corner of the Religion- Gender-Knowledge Crossroad: An Ethnographic Study of Mizrachi Observant Women in Israel
Melissa Klapper (USA)
A Fair Portion of the World’s Knowledge: Young Jewish Women and the Problem of Education in America, 1870-1920
Anat Lapidot-Firilla (USA)
Jewish Witches and Healers in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin during the 16th–19th Centuries
Leah Levin (Canada)
Dissertation on Rachel Kagan’s Term in the Knesset, 1949-1951
Riv-Ellen Prell (USA)
Gender and American-Jewish Youth Culture, 1945-1965
Mark Raider (USA)
The Plough Woman: Memoirs of the Pioneer Women of Palestine
Peri Rosenfeld (USA)
Early Graduates of the Henrietta Szold School of Nursing
Sarah Schmidt (Israel)
Deborah Kallen and ‘Progressive’ Education in the Palestinian Yishuv
Hadassah Segal (USA)
Deep Roots, Exotic Flowers: The Interaction of Jewish Identity and Artistic Expression in Modern Dance — Three Jewish Women Choreographers
Judith Shanks (USA)
Biography of Rebecca Isaiah Moses, Jewish Woman from the Southern United States
Baila Round Shargel (USA)
Study of the Life of Besse Goldstein Gotsfeld and the Organization She Founded: Mizrachi Women of America (now Amit Women)
Margalit Shilo (Israel)
Jerusalemite Jewish Women’s Writings — Three Unique Pamphlets
Joellyn Wallen Zollman (USA)
A History of American Synagogue Gift Shops
1998
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Esther Carmel-Hakim (Israel)
Documentary Film on Rama Lindheim
Phyllis Chesler (USA)
Claiming Sacred Ground: Women of the Wall — Anthology Project
Michele Clark (USA)
Perceptions of Difference among Adolescent Jewish Girls in the United States
Lilach Dekel (USA)
“Living for Tomorrow,” Documentary Video Project on Israeli Women Pioneers
Elaine Denholtz (USA)
Balancing Work and Love: Jewish Women Facing the Family-Career Challenge
Barbara Epstein (USA)
Oral Histories of Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in World War II
Naama Hadad-Kedem (Israel)
Mizrachi Women in an Israeli Kibbutz: A New Exploration of the 1950s in Israel
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (Israel)
A State of their Own: Women in Israel, Based on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Ruhama Marton (Israel)
“Dissident Daughter in the Promised Land,” Autobiographical Project by One of the First Female Peace Activists in Israel
Rochelle Millen (USA)
Eros and Ethics in Jewish Tradition
Sigal Nagar-Ron (Israel)
Mizrachi Women Immigrants in Israel
Basia Nikiforova (Lithuania)
The Role of Jewish Women in the Promotion of Jewish Identity in the Intermarried Family: The Lithuanian Case
Dona Phares (USA)
Oral History of Women of Machal, Volunteers for Israel in the Early Years of the State
Eetta Prince-Gibson (USA)
Jewish Women Settlers, their Role in Gush Emunim
Mark Raider (USA)
Edit and Reissue of the Zionist Classic The Plough Woman
Peri Rosenfeld (USA)
From the Lower East Side to the Upper Galilee: The Pioneering Experience of Sara Bodek Paltiel
Susan Sered (USA)
HBI Scholar-in-Residence, Israeli Women’s Health from an Anthropological Perspective
Francine Zuckerman (Canada)
“Jewish Women Face to Face,” Documentary Video Project