Nashim

Number 6Women, War and Peace in Jewish & Middle East Contexts
Number 7Autobiography and Memoir
Number 8Multiculturalism and Migration

CONTENTS Number 6 Fall 2003

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

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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

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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

CONTENTS Number 7 Spring 2004

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

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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 Artist
Judith 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 / 266

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

CONTENTS Number 8 Fall 2004

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

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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 Women
Rachel 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

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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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