4 Women in Medieval Jewish Societies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Four Approaches to Women and the Jewish Experience 1
5. Part I Classical Tradition
6. 1 Jewish Feminist Approaches to the Bible 23
7. 2 Women and Torah Study in Aggadah 41
8. 3 Women and Jewish Law 64
9. 4 Women in Medieval Jewish Societies 91
10. 5 The Mystical Spirituality of Eastern European Jewish Women 116
11. 6 How Central European Jewish Women Confronted Modernity 131
12. Part III Contemporary Life
13. 7 Women and American Judaism 153
14. 8 Women’s Transformations of Contemporary Jewish Life 182
15. Part IV Literature
16. 9 Women in Jewish American Literature 197
17. 10 Text, Nation, and Gender in Israeli Women’s Fiction 221
18. Epilogue: Women and Judaism: From Invisibility to Integration 245
19. Contributors 255
20. Index 259