Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal: Announcements

Publication: EXODUS, Poems by Janet Ruth Heller, Ph.D

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500

EXODUS, Poems by Janet Ruth Heller, Ph.D.

The poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) are modern midrashim: re-interpretations and psychological explorations of the people and events in the Bible. A central metaphor is the exodus from Egypt, which represents the journeys that people make: trying new experiences, leaving a bad relationship, finding a new job, taking risks. Many of the poems are dramatic monologues from the perspective of a character in the Jewish Scriptures.

Discussing Exodus would enhance Jewish studies, gender studies, Bible studies, and contemporary literature classes.

ISBN 978-1625490612, 88 pages, $18. Available from Amazon or from Barnes & Noble

New Resource: Agunah Research Unit

Sun, 08 Feb 2015 10:42:10 -0500

The Final Publications of the Agunah Research Unit (Manchester) are now available as free downloadable pdfs (from http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/publications/).

There are six books: the final report (no.1 below), a 95p. Hebrew summary (no.6), plus books by the individual members of the team. The original 24 Working Papers, including the 2009 Launch lecture (no.21) also remain available from that page.

1. Bernard S. Jackson, Agunah: The Manchester Analysis

2. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, Confronting 'Iggun

3. Shoshanah Knol, Agunah and Ideology

4. Avishalom Westreich, Talmud-Based Solutions to the Problem of the Agunah

5. Nechama Hadari, The Kosher Get: A Halakhic Story of Divorce

6. Agunah Research Unit, Agunah: The Manchester Analysis (short version, in Hebrew)

For further details, see http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/ARU.htm

Bernard Jackson

Call for Submissions: Now accepting submissions to Living Legacies – Volume V

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:46:39 -0500

Now accepting submissions to Living Legacies – Volume V.

Please contact Liz for the submission guidelines.

Please contact Liz regarding Mini-Memoir and Legacy Writing Workshops.

Now available!

Living Legacies – Volume IV

A Collection of Writing by Contemporary Canadian Jewish Women

PK Press, 2014

Introduction by Liz Pearl

Foreword by Ina Fichman

Prologue by Iris E. Wagner

The Living Legacies collection includes personal narratives, mini-memoirs and legacy writing.

$20 per copy plus shipping

To order your copies please complete the order form below.

http://at.yorku.ca/pk/ll-order.htm

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Thank you,

Liz Pearl, M.Ed.

Therapist /Editor

PK Press

Liz_pearl@sympatico.ca

New Resource: Frankfurt Memorbuch

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:40:54 -0400

Subject: Frankfurt Memorbuch Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am glad to inform you about the publication of my PhD dissertation online. The dissertation deals with the research of social and gendered history of the Frankfurt am Main Jewry at the beginning of the new Era (1628 - 1907). You can find by the end of the dissertation the thousands of names of men and women, who have entries in the manuscript. You can see the dissertation either in the website of the Hebrew University about the Frankfurt Memorbuch (towards the end of the page) http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb1092/index_eng.html or in the website of Duisburg-Essen University http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=18193 Best Regards Dr. Tzvia Koren-Loeb Ramat-Gan, Israel

Call for Submissions: Women in Judaism is now seeking fiction submissions.

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:03:48 -0500

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal [http://www.womeninjudaism.org] is now accepting fiction submissions. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal is an academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. With each new issue, we’ll dedicate a section to selected works of fiction. We’re seeking relevant works dealing with Jewish and/or spiritual issues, not exclusively but preferably on women’s issues. We like original, experimental, poignant, provocative, political, personal and daring pieces. We like to test boundaries, set trends, and most importantly, encourage innovation. We don’t like poems about the weather and/or nature. There’re plenty of them around. Unpublished authors of all ages are welcome to submit their work. Genres may include poetry, short stories, short plays, chapters from a novel – the list goes on. We only accept electronic submissions. Send your work or queries to Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief at dina.eylon@utoronto.ca Please include your submission within the body of the email. If your submission is very long, query first. If we haven’t responded within a reasonable timeframe, you’re welcome to send a friendly reminder. Even though Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal does not presently offer remuneration to its contributors, it does offer an invaluable publicity and exposure through its esteemed site. Woman in Judaism, Inc. retains exclusive electronic rights. The author may publish the work in any other medium. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal requests the following accreditation with subsequent publications: "First published in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal at www.womeninjudaism.org"