Nashim Journal
Nashim was co-founded by the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, one of Israel’s leading academic centers for modern Jewish learning, including the Center for Women in Jewish Law and The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the world’s first university-based research institute devoted to the study of Jews and gender. This journal provides an international, interdisciplinary academic forum — the only one of its kind — for the innovative work being done in Jewish women’s and gender studies. It regularly includes articles on literature, text studies, anthropology, archeology, theology, contemporary thought, sociology, the arts and more.
Nashim creates communication channels within the Jewish women’s and gender studies community and brings the fruits of that community’s work to a wider audience. Each issue is theme-oriented and produced in consultation with a distinguished feminist scholar. Some of the topics discussed in past issues include Feminist Interpretations of Rabbinic Literature; Gender, Food and Survival; Women, War and Peace in Jewish and Middle East contexts; and Autobiography and Memoir.
Nashim is published twice a year by Indiana University Press, which was founded in 1950 and is the largest publisher among Big Ten presses and the tenth largest university press in the country.
Call for Papers: Meaning Making After October 7 The impact of this large-scale and exceptionally brutal violence continues to reverberate in Israel, Gaza and beyond. Issue no. 47 of Nashim (Spring, 2026), under the consulting editorship of Alanna E. Cooper of Case Western Reserve University and Keren Friedman-Peleg of the College of Management, Academic Studies, in Rishon LeZion, aims to address how Jews in Israel and abroad are working to make sense of the events and move forward from them. We seek scholarly articles and essays in a range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, political science, history, literature and the arts, on topics that address meaning-making after October 7. We welcome proposals from both emerging and established scholars, and are particularly interested in gendered perspectives, including those that address women’s presence (and absence) in the discourse of trauma and war. Please email submissions by March 1, 2025. More information.
Latest Issue

Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Kol Eesha. Venice Psalter series. 1999. Oil on canvas, 81 × 71 cm. Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Archaeology of Metaphor, Plate 14 (p. 115).
Spring 5784/2024
Jewish Women, Feminism, Gender, Scholarship: Where Are We Now?
Consulting Editor: Judith R. Baskin
Past Issues

Spring/Summer 5783/2023
Jewish Women In Post-World War II Eastern and Central Europe
Consulting Editors: Andrea Pető and Eleonore Lappin-Eppel

Fall 5783/2022
Islamic and Jewish Religious Feminisms: Textual Foundations and Practices
Consulting Editor: Ruth Roded
Also in this issue: Lenore Mizrachi Cohen's Worry Flowers

Spring 5782/2022
Writing Our Way Home: Jewish Women's Post-Holocaust Diasporic Writing in Latin America, The Balkans and the Jewish World
Part II: Imagined Landscapes: Jewish Women Writers between Worlds
Consulting Editors: Marjorie Agosín, Jelena Filipovic, and Oana Hergenröther

Fall 5782/2021
Writing Our Way Home: Jewish Women's Post-Holocaust Diasporic Writing in Latin America, The Balkans and the Jewish World
Part I: Surviving Stories
Consulting Editors: Marjorie Agosín, Jelena Filipovic, and Oana Hergenröther

Spring 5781/2021
In this issue: spiritual leadership in the Waraw Ghetto | Jewish women spiritualists | cross-dressing in Jewish law | midrash, marriage and #MeToo | Hadassah women build a modern medical center | feminist midrash in poetry and art


Spring 5781/2020
Jewish Women Medical Practioners in Europe – Before, During and After the Holocaust

Fall 5780/2019

Spring 5779/2019
Festschrift for Shulamit Reinharz
Part 3: Women in the Professions
Consulting Editor: Sylvia Barack Fishman

Fall 5778/2018
Festschrift for Shulamit Reinharz
Part 2
Consulting Editor: Sylvia Barack Fishman

Spring 5778/2018
Festschrift for Shulamit Reinharz
Part 1
Consulting Editor: Sylvia Barack Fishman

Spring-Fall 5771/2017
New Historical and Socio-Legal Perspectives on Jewish Divorce
Consulting Editor: Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

Spring-Fall 5776/2016

Fall 5776/2015
Women's Torah Study
Consulting Editor: David Golinkin

Spring 5775/2015
Feminist Interpretations of the Talmud: A Collection of Feminist Talmud Commentaries
Honoring Judith Hauptman on her Seventieth Birthday
Consulting Editors: Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman

Winter 5775/2014
Gender and the Holocaust: New Research
Consulting Editor: Dalia Ofer

Spring 5774/2014

Fall 5774/2013
Women, Jews, Venetians
Consulting Editors: Gretchen Starr-Lebeau and Ariella Lang

Spring 5773/2013
Feminist Receptions of Biblical Women
Consulting Editor: Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

Spring 5772/2012
The Jewish Woman and Her Body
Consulting Editor: Rachel S. Harris

Fall 5772/2011
Gender and Jewish Identity
Consulting Editors: Elisheva Baumgarten and Sylvia Barack Fishman

Spring 5771/2010
Women in the Responsa Literature
Consulting Editor: David Golinkin

Fall 5771/2010
Jewish Women and Philanthropy
Consulting Editor: Brenda E. Brasher

Spring 5770/2010
Women and Jewish Poetry
Consulting Editor: Kathryn Hellerstein

Fall 5770/2009
Iranian Jewish Women
Consulting Editor: Farideh Dayanim Goldin

Spring 5770/2009
Special Issue: Sexuality in Jewish Contexts
Consulting Editor: Tova Hartman
![Cover of NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. Fall. Number 16. 5769/2008. Women and Books (2). Consulting Editor: Wendy Zierler. Also in this issue: "A woman within Zionism: Myriam Schach," "Israeli women's leadership today," "The illuminated pages of Ellen Frank," "Poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch." Cover Art is by Susan Schwalb, entitled "Bereishit" [Genesis]. Silverpoint, acrylic, gold leaf on parchment. It is a circle containing four bands of waves made of numerous parallel curved gray lines in a rhythmical fashion.](../images/publications/nashim/nashim16.jpg)
Fall 5769/2008
Women and Books (2)
Consulting Editor: Wendy Zierler

Spring 5769/2008
Women and Books
Consulting Editor: Wendy Zierler

Fall 5768/2007
Jewish Women and the Visual Arts
Consulting Editor: Judith Margolis

Jewish Women in the Economy
Consulting Editor: Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui

Fall 5767/2006
Women's Health, Reproduction and Body Politics
Consulting Editor: Larissa Remennick

Spring 5766/2006
Yemenite Jewish Women
Consulting Editor: Nitza Druyan

Fall 5766/2005
Jewish Women's Spirituality (2)
Consulting Editor: Vanessa L. Ochs

Spring 5765/2005
Jewish Women's Spirituality
Consulting Editor: Vanessa L. Ochs

Fall 5765/2004
Special Issue: Multiculturalism and Migration
Consulting Editor: Renée Levine Melammed

Spring 5764/2004
Autobiography and Memoir
Edited by Gershon Bacon


Spring 5763/2003
Gender, Food and Survival
Consulting Editor: Norma Baumel Joseph
Out of Print

Fall 5762/2001
Feminist Interpretations of Rabbinic Literature
Consulting Editor: Renée Levine Melammed
Out of Print


