The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

Women and Gender

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The Martial Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850

Noa Shashar

A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records.

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Mazaltob: A Novel

Blanche Bendahan, author; Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, editors

A first-ever English translation of a compelling work by a forerunner of modern Sephardi feminist literature.

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A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

ChaeRan Y. Freeze; translated by Gregory L. Freeze

Rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society

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Glikl: Memoirs 1691-1719

Annotated with an introduction by Chava Turniansky; English translation by Sara Friedman

An authoritative new translation, fully annotated to explicate Glikl’s life and times

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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents, 1772–1914

ChaeRan Y. Freeze and Jay M. Harris, editors

An astounding compilation of primary source documents dealing with all aspects of Jewish daily life in the Russian empire.

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Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma

Federica K. Clementi

An astonishing analysis of Jewish mother-daughter relations before, during, and after the Shoah as described in daughters’ memoirs.

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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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Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914

Margalit Shilo

“A fascinating, extremely well written book.  Margalit Shilo fills an important gap in the study of women in Israeli society, that of Orthodox women at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.” — Deborah Bernstein, University of Haifa

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Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe

Avraham Grossman

“This pioneering synthesis addresses an issue standing at the cutting edge of contemporary historiography with sensitivity, respect for evidence and sovereign mastery of a diverse and daunting corpus of texts.” — David Berger, CUNY

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Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

Iris Parush

“Describing for the first time the opening of Jewish women’s society to the broad world of modern culture, Parush offers . . . an invaluable resource for scholars and students working in modern Jewish history, Jewish cultural studies and women's studies.” — Arnold J. Band, UCLA

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The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine

Edited and Annotated by Mark A. Raider and Miriam B. Raider-Roth

“The editors have performed a most valuable service in this detailed exploration of the public and private writings of Zionist women pioneers” —Anita Shapira, Tel Aviv University