Women and Gender

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

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.

ChaeRan Y. Freeze; translated by Gregory L. Freeze
Rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society

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

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.

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

Sharon Faye Koren
A fascinating analysis of why there are no female mystics in medieval Judaism.

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

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

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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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