Vol 4, No 2 (2007)

Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Fall 2007

Table of Contents

Articles

“Do Not Reject Your Mother’s Teaching?!” - The Function of Micah’s Mother in Judges 17 PDF
Heidi M. Szpek
The Frankfurt a.M. Memorbuch: Gender Roles in the Jewish Community Institutions PDF
Tzvia Koren-Loeb
The Writer as Witness: Latin American Jewish Women's Testimonio in the Works of Marjorie Agosín, Sonia Guralnik, Alicia Kozameh and Alicia Partnoy PDF HTML
Benay Blend

Biographical Essays

Hilda Geiringer: A Pioneer of Applied Mathematics and a Woman Ahead of Her Time Was Saved from Fascism by Turkey PDF
Arnold Reisman

Book Reviews

Carmen Caballero-Navas. The Book of Women's Love and Jewish Medieval Medical Literature on Women: Sefer Ahavat Nashim. London, New York, Bahrain: Kegan Paul, 2004. PDF HTML
Justin Jaron Lewis
Esther Schely-Newman. Our Lives Are But Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. PDF HTML
Nathan P. Devir
Ora Wiskind Elper, Editor. Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah. (MaTaN: The Sadie Rennet Women's Institute for Torah Studies, Jerusalem). Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2003. PDF HTML
Susan Landau-Chark
Lisa Lampert. Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2004. PDF HTML
Albrecht Classen
Faydra Shapiro. Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. PDF HTML
Adam Stewart
Rebecca Schwartz, Editor. All the Women Followed Her: A Collection of Writings on Miriam the Prophet & the Women of the Exodus. Mountain View, CA: Rikudei Miriam Press, 2001. PDF HTML
Walter E. Brown
Harriet Pass Freidenreich. Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women. (The Modern Jewish Experience). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. PDF HTML
Sara L. Kimble
Tobin Belzer and Julie Pelc, Editors. Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives. State University of New York Press: Albany, 2003. PDF HTML
Amy Tziporah Karp
Daniel Asa Rose. Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family’s Escape from the Holocaust. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. PDF HTML
Helen Frink
Doris B. Gold, Editor. Prudence Wright Holmes, Compiler. Voices of Thinking Jewish Women. New York: Biblio Press, 2003. PDF HTML
Shayna Sheinfeld
Doris B. Gold, Editor. Prudence Wright Holmes, Compiler. Voices of Thinking Jewish Women. New York: Biblio Press, 2003. PDF HTML
Sandra Dillon
Jews and Judaism in Canada: a bibliography of works published since 1965. Compiled by Michael Brown, Richard Menkis, Benjamin Schlesinger, and Stuart Schoenfeld. [Toronto]: Centre for Jewish Studies, York University, 2000. PDF HTML
Beth Dwoskin
Patricia Hidiroglou, ed. Entre héritage et devenir: La construction de la famille juive. Études offertes à Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski. Paris: Publication de la Sorbonne, 2003. PDF HTML
Andrea Eidinger
Elana Wolff. Mask. Toronto: Guernica Editions Inc., 2003. PDF HTML
Chris Chan
Shelly Spilka. Rescuing Haya: Confessions of an Eight Generation Israeli Emigrant. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. PDF HTML
Melissa Faulkner
Deborah Dash Moore. G.I. Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bellnap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. PDF HTML
Rebecca Davis
Marjorie Agosin. The Angel of Memory. Translated with a Prologue by Elizabeth Horan. San Antonio, Texas: Wings Press, 2001 PDF HTML
Benay Blend
Helen Jacobus Apte. Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman. Edited and with explanatory essays by her grandson, Marcus D. Rosenbaum. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998. PDF HTML
Sara Rofofsky Marcus
Alisa Harth. When we Basked in the Warmth of the Sun. Tel-Aviv: Yedioth Ahronot Books and Chemed Books, 2005. [Hebrew] PDF HTML
Azila Talit Reisenberger

Film Reviews

Purity (Tehora). Dir. Anat Zuria. Amithos Films, 2002. 63 min. PDF HTML
David A. Salomon
The First Cleveland Jewish Film Festival (2007): What is the Role of Women? PDF HTML
Batya Weinbaum
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story. USA 80 minutes. Director: Dan Katzir. Katzir Productions PDF HTML
Batya Weinbaum
Swimming in Auschwitz. Dir: Jon Kean. 63 minutes, USA, 2007. PDF HTML
Batya Weinbaum
Video Portraits of Survival Volume Two PDF HTML
Batya Weinbaum

Fiction - Short Stories

The Piecework of Being a Second-Generation American Jew PDF
Lenore Weiss
Sing Me to Sleep PDF HTML
Kim Ben-Porat
Rabbi PDF HTML
Kate Mende-Fridkis
The Phone Call - 1982 PDF HTML
Renee Friedman
Sacrifices for the Revolution PDF
Miriam Budner
Give Me a B PDF HTML
Carol Schwalberg
What Remains PDF HTML
Sandra Hurtes
Big Bug PDF HTML
Ellen Geist
Baking from Scratch PDF HTML
Norma Anapol
My Glamorous Mother PDF HTML
Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Skeletons PDF HTML
Shana Steiger

Fiction - Poetry

Schav PDF HTML
I.B. (Bunny) Iskov
Why Sould I Feel Half a Woman? PDF HTML
Julie Phelan
Jerusalem of the Jews PDF HTML
Renee von Paschen
Miriam PDF HTML
Tia Pliskow
At the Always Open Wall; In the Newly Open Section of the Wall 5766; Jerusalem 5767/2007 PDF HTML
Felice Myriam Kahn Zisken
Passover PDF HTML
Marjorie Deiter Keyishian
Asherah PDF HTML
Leah Shelleda
Seneca Falls, 1998 PDF HTML
Dori Appel
Poem in Four Mood Swings PDF HTML
Lenore Weiss


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