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The HBI Series on Jewish Women publishes a wide range of books about Jewish women and gender issues in diverse contexts. By offering fresh perspectives on Jewish women’s history, lives and experiences worldwide, the series aims to close a major gap in Jewish learning.
Books in the HBI Series on Jewish Women are appropriate for course adoption in Jewish studies, women’s studies, gender studies, history, religion, and many other fields of study.
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American Jewish Women
and the Zionist Enterprise
Shulamit Reinharz
and Mark A. Raider, Editors
The first and only complete exploration of the role of American
women in the creation and support of the State of Israel
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Double or Nothing?
Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage
Sylvia Barack
Fishman
A lively and accessible look at Jewish intermarriage and its
familial and cultural effects.
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Eternally Eve:
Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry
Anne Lapidus Lerner
A fascinating analysis of the story of Eve, using modern poetry in conversation with biblical texts and rabbinic rewritings to reveal new layers of meaning.
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist!
Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism
Tamar Ross
An extraordinary examination of the theological implications
for Orthodox Judaism of women’s changed status in the
modern world.
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National Jewish Book Award Winner!
Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism:
Resistance and Accommodation
Tova Hartman
An innovative analysis of how creative tensions between modern Orthodox Judaism and feminism can lead to unexpected perspectives and beliefs.
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Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
Sharon Faye Koren
A fascinating analysis of why there are no female mystics in medieval Judaism
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Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality
Ellen M. Umansky, Dianne Ashton
The only comprehensive volume of Jewish women's spiritual writing from the sixteenth century to the present.
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Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices
Gaby Brimmer, Elena Poniatowska
The remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer
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Gender and American Jews:
Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life
Harriet Hartman, Moshe Hartman; Sylvia Barack Fishman, pref.
A much-anticipated sociological analysis of gender components in contemporary American Jewish life based on the most recent population data
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Jewish Feminism in
Israel Some Contemporary Perspectives
Kalpana
Misra and Melanie S. Rich, Editors
A dynamic and authentic representation of feminism in Israel
by some of its leading exponents and activists.
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Jewish Marriage and
Divorce in Imperial Russia
ChaeRan Y. Freeze
A ground-breaking study of Jewish marriage and divorce in
19th-century Russia.
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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
Jael Silliman
A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.
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Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel
Ruth Kark, ed.; Margalit Shilo, ed.; Galit Hasan-Rokem, ed.; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.
A critical look at the history and culture of women of the Yishuv and a call for a new national discourse.
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The Kosher Baker
Paula Shoyer.
This extraordinary bible of kosher baking breathes fresh life into parve desserts and breads.
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Leaving Leningrad:
The True Adventures of a Soviet Émigré
Ludmila Shtern
A hilarious memoir of life under communism and capitalism.
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist!
Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism
Dvora E. Weisberg
Provocative exploration of levirate marriage in ancient Judaism that sheds new light on the Jewish family in antiquity and the rabbinic reworking of earlier Israelite law.
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National Jewish Book Award Winner!
Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self
Carole S. Kessner
This book brings to light the fascinating legacy of Marie Syrkin. As a polemical journalist, socialist Zionist, poet, educator,
literary critic, translator, and idiosyncratic feminist, Syrkin was
eyewitness to and reporter on most of the major events in America, Israel,
and Europe in the twentieth-century.
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Midrashic Women: Formations
of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
Judith
R. Baskin
A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women
and their lives.
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Pious and Rebellious:
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Avraham Grossman
A pioneering work exploring thesocial status and daily life
of medieval Jewish women.
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist!
Princess or Prisoner?
Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914
Margalit
Shilo
A fascinating journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox
Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule.
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Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging
Derek Rubin, ed.
An anthology of previously-unpublished stories by leading young Jewish writers that explore the idea of the Promised Land.
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Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth Century Eastern European Jewish Society
Iris Parush
A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women fashioned their role as agents of modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society.
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Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
Sonja M. Hedgepeth, ed.; Rochelle G. Saidel, ed.
The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust.
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Song of Songs Love
Lyrics from the Bible
Marcia Falk
An acclaimed translation of the Bible’s celebrated collection
of love poetry.
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The Covenant of Circumcision
New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite
Elizabeth
Wyner Mark, Editor
Scholars and rabbis examine the complex history and contemporary
challenges of the Jewish rite of circumcision.
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The Men's Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
Elana Maryles Sztokman
A provocative look at the inner world of Orthodox Jewish men who attend partnership synagogues
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The Plough Woman:
Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine
Mark
A. Raider and Miriam B. Raider-Roth, Editors
The classic text on the pioneer women of pre-state Israel,
updated in 2002.
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The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965
Carol K. Ingall, ed.
The first volume to examine the contributions of women who brought the forces of American progressivism and Jewish nationalism to formal and informal Jewish education
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Uncertain Travelers:
Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America
Marjorie Agosín
An evocative exploration of Jewish women’s immigration
to America.
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Wedding Song: Memoirs
of an Iranian Jewish Woman
Farideh Goldin
A riveting personal account of growing up in the shadow of
religious fundamentalism.
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What Makes Women Sick?
Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society
Susan Sered
An eye-opening look at Israeli women’s life expectancy
and health.
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Women and American
Judaism Historical Perspectives
Pamela S. Nadell
and Jonathan D. Sarna, Editors
New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women
from colonial times to the present.
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Women and Water: Menstruation
in Jewish Life and Law
Rahel R. Wasserfall,
Editor
Provocative essays address women’s menstrual rituals
in Jewish law, history, and culture.
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Women, Birth, and Death
in Jewish Law and Practice
Rochelle L. Millen
A sensitive exploration of the development of pivotal life
cycle rituals as they touch Jewish women’s lives.
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