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In Memoriam--Dafna Izraeli / 3
To Our Readers / 7
WOMEN, WAR, AND PEACE IN JEWISH AND MIDDLE EAST CONTEXTS Consulting Editor: Alice Shalvi Symposium: Women, War, and Peace in Jewish Middle East Contexts participants: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Galia Golan, Clare Kinberg, Sylvia Fogiel-Bijaoui, Laura Levitt, Rela Mazali, Shulamit Reinharz, Erella Shadmi, Marla Brettschneider, Malka Enker, Judith Stern Peck / 9 Margalit Shilo, Women as Victims of War: The British Conquest (1917) and the Blight of Prostitution in the Holy City / 72 Hanita Brand, Loyalty, Belonging, and Their Discontents: Women in the Public Sphere in Jewish and Palestinian Cultural Discourse / 84 Sachlav Stoller-Liss, "Mothers Birth the Nation": The Social Construction of Zionist Motherhood in Wartime in Israeli Parents' Manuals / 104 Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, Religious Women Fighters in Israel's War of Independence: A New Gender Perception or a Passing Episode? / 119 Noya Rimalt, When a Feminist Struggle Becomes a Symbol of the Agenda as a Whole: The Integration of Women in the Military as an Example / 148 Bonna Devora Haberman, Israel, a Palace in Space: A Gendered Re-Vision of Territoriality / 165 * * *
Estelle Gershgoren Novak, Two Poems / 182
Shirley Adelman, Ammunition / 184
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Resident artist: Judith Margolis, Three Israeli Artists Respond to War / 185 Maya Dunsky, The High Priest: Face*Inner Face: A Dance Essay / 198 * * *
Joel B. Wolowelsky, Reader Response: Beruriah's Final Lesson / 205
Esther Fuchs, Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Bible as a Woman, reviewed by George Savran / 209
Tamar El-Or, Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women In Israel, reviewed by Judith Tydor Baumel
/ 216
Renée Levine Melammed (ed.), "Lift Up Your Voice": Women's Voices and Feminist Interpretation in Jewish Studies, reviewed by Elisheva Baumgarten / 222
Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.), The New Hebrew Women: Women in the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement from a Gender Perspective, reviewed by Yossi Goldstein / 230
Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin (eds.), Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, reviewed by Deborah Greniman / 235
Phyllis Chesler and Rivka Haut (eds.), Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site, reviewed by Brenda E. Brasher / 241
The Feminization of Poverty: 11th Annual Conference on Women's and Gender Studies and Feminist Theories, Tel Aviv University, reviewed by Hanita Brand / 245
Call for Papers--Nashim no. 9
Jewish Women's Spirituality / 250
Contributors to this Issue / 252
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To Our Readers / 5
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR Consulting Editor: Gershon Bacon Robert Liberles, "She Sees That Her Merchandise Is Good, and Her Lamp Is Not Extinguished at Nighttime": Glikl's Memoir as Historical Source / 11 Shulamit Magnus, Kol Ishah: Women and Pauline Wengeroff's Writing of an Age / 28 Judith R. Baskin, Piety and Female Aspiration in the Memoirs of Pauline Epstein Wengeroff and Bella Rosenfeld Chagall / 65 Paula E. Hyman, Discovering Puah Rakovsky / 97 Tzvi Howard Adelman, Self, Other, and Community: Jewish Women's Autobiography / 116 Ruth Kark, "Not a Suffragist"? Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi on Women and Gender / 128 Renée Levine Melammed, The Memoirs of a Partisan from Salonika / 151 Jasmina Lukic, Eva Grlic: Between Silence and Speech / 174 * * *
Laura Levitt, Intimate Engagements: A Holocaust Lesson / 190
Amia Lieblich, Writing Biography as a Relationship / 206
Karen Alkalay-Gut, Getting Women to Talk about Themselves: My Role Models of the Previous Generation / 212
Resident ArtistJudith Margolis, Ruth Weisberg, Fiction/Nonfiction/A Life in Art / 217 |
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Sybil Sheridan and Sylvia Rothschild (eds.), Taking Up the Timbrel:
The Challenge of Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today,
reviewed by Einat Ramon / 236
David Golinkin, The Status of Women in Jewish Law: Responsa, reviewed by Zvi Zohar / 240
Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna (eds.), Women and American Judaism. Historical Perspectives, reviewed by Eli Lederhendler / 247
Marc Lee Raphael (ed.), Gendering the Jewish Past, with an introductory essay by Pamela S. Nadell, reviewed by Wendy Zierler / 252
Elisabeth Malleier, Jüdische Frauen in Wien 1816-1938. Wohlfart--Mädchenbildung--Frauenarbeit, reviewed by Claudia Prestel / 256
"Purity," a film by Anat Zuriya, reviewed by Susan Sered / 263
"For My Children," a film by Michal Aviad, reviewed by Juliana Ochs
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Francine Klagsbrun, The Fourth Commandment--Remember the Sabbath Day, reviewed by Shlomo Tucker / 271
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Three Daughters, reviewed by Judy Labensohn / 276
Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark, and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.), The New Hebrew Woman: Women in the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement from a Gender Perspective, reviewed by Yossi Goldstein(reprinted from Nashim no. 6) / 281 Contributors / 286 |

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MULTICULTURALISM IN THE WORLD OF JEWISH WOMEN Michal Ben Ya’akov,Aliyah in the Lives of North African Jewish Widows: Realization of a Dream or Solution to a Problem? / 5 Rachel Sharaby, Looking Forward and Backward: Modern and Traditional Gender Patterns among Yemenite Immigrant Women in a Moshav / 25 Beverly Mizrachi, Non-Mainstream Education, Limited Mobility, and the Second Generation of Moroccan Immigrant Women: The Case of the Kindergarten Teacher’s Assistant / 50 Shalva Weil, Ethiopian Jewish Women: Trends and Transformations in the Context of Transnational Change / 73 Larissa Remennick, Providers, Caregivers, and Sluts: Women with a Russian Accent in Israel / 87* * *
Symposium:Tense Dialogues—Speaking (Across) Multicultural Differences in the Jewish Feminist World, edited by Marla Brettschneider Carol Conaway, Journey to the Promised Land: How I Became an African-American Jew Rather Than a Jewish African American / 115 Michele Clark, Memories of an Intercultural Education 1955–1957 / 129 Jennifer Chau, More Than Chicken Chow Mein / 136 Jessica Radin, Better Off Than You Would Have Been: Feminist Legacies for Transnational Adoptive Families in the Jewish Community / 143 Yolanda Shoshana, Am I My Sister’s Keeper? / 154 Cole Krawitz, A Voice From Within: A Challenge for the Conservative Jewish Movement and its Gay/Lesbian Activists / 165 |
Rosa María Pegueros, Radical Feminists—No Jews Need Apply / 174
Marla Brettschneider and Dawn Robinson Rose,
Engaging Jewish Feminist Diversity Issues:
Seven Concepts and Several Questions / 180
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Shaul Magid, Is Egalitarianism Heresy?
Rethinking Gender on the Margins of Judaism / 189
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Wise WomenRachel Adelman, On Laughter and Re-membering / 230 Yakov Azriel, Four Poems: Rebecca and Esau; Dinah’s Candle; Lullaby for Moses; From Me, Leah, to You, Rachel / 245 Resident Artist Judith Margolis, The Painted Word: Jewish Women’s Book Art / 251 * * *
Carole B. Balin, To Reveal Our Hearts:
Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia,
reviewed by Gabriella Safran / 268
Esther Schely-Newman, Our lives Are But Stories:
Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women,
reviewed by Rahel Wasserfall / 274
Lena Jedwab Rozenberg, Girl with Two Landscapes:
The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941–1945, reviewed by Yehiel Grenimann / 276
“My Terrorist,” a film by Yulie Gerstel, reviewed by Amia Lieblich / 281
Call for Papers—Nashim no. 11 Yemenite Jewish Women / 283
Contributors to This Issue / 284
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