Gender and Judaism

The Transformation of Tradition

By: Tamar Rudavsky (Editor)

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Hardcover | 2 March 1995

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Every morning Jewish men offering their prayers to God in the traditional manner include the line Blessed are you Lord our God, King of the universe who has not made me a woman. Regardless of one's interpretation of this line, it is an inescapable fact that traditional Judaism views women and men and their places within Judaism quite differently.

But Judaism is not a static religion. It has always been influenced by changes in its surrounding environment. Throughout history, issues of gender have both influenced and been influenced by classical and modern Jewish perspectives. This transformation continues today, as feminist thinkers attempt to discover how modern women fit into Jewish thought and practice. Is halakhah gender inclusive? How do conceptualizations of the Jewish home effect Jewish women's identities? What is the relation between the experiences of historical Jewish women and the roles of their present day sisters? How have changing gender roles affected the identity of the Jewish male?

In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty scholars seek to address these and other questions. Among the many subjects covered are: gender boundaries in Kabbalah; images of Jewish masculinity; the challenge of women's rabbinic leadership; Jewish feminist theory; rabbinic responses to wife-beating; Orthodox women in the modern world; and patriarchy, Judaism, and Nazism in German feminist thought.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Toward a Gender-Inclusive Account of Halakhah	p. 3
Rejection: A Rabbinic Response to Wife Beating	p. 13
An Analysis of Rabbinic Hermeneutics: B. T. Kiddushin 34a	p. 25
Reconfiguring Home: Jewish Feminist Identity/ies	p. 39
The Secret of Jewish Femininity: Hiddenness, Power, and Physicality in the Theology of Orthodox Women in the Contemporary World	p. 51
Servants and Sexuality: Seduction, Surrogacy, and Rape: Some Observations Concerning Class, Gender, and Race in Early Modern Italian Jewish Families	p. 81
An Adventure in Otherness: Nahida Remy-Ruth Lazarus (1849-1928)	p. 99
Jewish Identity and the "New Woman": Central European Jewish University Women in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 113
The Women Who Would Be Rabbis	p. 123
Configurations of Patriarchy, Judaism, and Nazism in German Feminist Thought	p. 135
Eavesdropping on Angels and Laughing at God: Theorizing a Subversive Matriarchy	p. 157
Mass Culture and the City in the Works of German-Jewish Novelists: Claire Goll, Veza Canetti, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Gertrud Kolmar	p. 169
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Traced in Ink: Women's Lives in "Qotzo shel Yud" by Yalag and "Mishpachah" by D. Baron	p. 191
On Becoming Female: Crossing the Gender Boundaries in Kabbalistic Ritual and Myth	p. 209
The Geopolitics of Jewish Feminism	p. 231
From Equality to Transformation: The Challenge of Women's Rabbinic Leadership	p. 243
Triple Play: Deconstructing Jewish Women's Lives	p. 255
Of Mice and Supermen: Images of Jewish Masculinity	p. 279
An Anthropological and Postmodern Critique of Jewish Feminist Theory	p. 295
About the Editor	p. 307
About the Contributors	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 315
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