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• W2023285355 abstract "Reviewed by: Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing, and: Judaism Since Gender, and:Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home, and: Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman’s Voice Esther Fuchs (bio) Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing edited by Judith R. Baskin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994, 382 pp., $39.95 hardcover, $18.95 paper. Judaism Since Gender edited by Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt. New York and London: Routledge, 1997, 229 pp., $65.00 hardcover, $17.95 paper. [End Page 222] Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home by Laura Levitt. New York and London: Routledge, 1997, 224 pp., $59.95 hardcover, $17.95 paper. Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman’s Voice by Judith Hauptman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998, 304 pp., $26.00 hardcover, $17.00 paper. The books included in this survey consist of two anthologies and two monographs. The first anthology, edited by Judith Baskin, is a collection of essays on women in Jewish literature. First published as a special volume of Shofar: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies, Judaism Since Gender includes essays on several disciplines in Jewish Studies. Laura Levitt’s Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home uses postmodern and traditional methods in re-evaluating Jewish texts and Jewish identity. Judith Hauptman reconsiders certain issues in Jewish legal texts from a feminist perspective. All four books argue for a recognition of the relevance of gender to the study of Judaism. As we shall see, some of these books argue not only for the inclusion of gender in all advanced studies of Judaism, but for a recognition of the gender-based premises that inform Judaism as a cultural tradition and a body of knowledge. Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing includes seventeen essays on Jewish women writers and Jewish texts about women from the Renaissance to contemporary literature. Organized chronologically, the articles discuss Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Italian, and Spanish literature. Though the methods and theories vary from one article to the next, one of the common themes here is the limitations imposed by Jewish cultural tradition on women who sought to find liberation and empowerment in writing. Expression and repression are both traced in many writings by Jewish women across linguistic and historical differences. In her introduction to the collection, Judith Baskin writes: “The themes of repression and equivocal liberation resonate throughout this compilation, as the authors reflect on the silencing of the female voice in a traditional Jewish culture that most often denied women the education and the empowerment requisite for recording their thoughts and feelings” (19). In “Dvora Baron: Daughter of the Shtetl,” Ruth Adler discusses the promising beginnings of the first modern Hebrew woman writer, Dvora Baron, who began to write at the turn of the century. Adler calls attention to the ways in which Baron feminizes the shtetl, the East European Jewish townlet. Many of her protagonists are widows and divorcees, women in the margins of Jewish society. A rabbi’s daughter, Baron was fortunate to learn Hebrew and be exposed to the issues that were brought before her [End Page 223] father for adjudication. Adler points to the physical, financial, and personal challenges that eventually stymied Baron’s writing after her immigration to Palestine. In some ways Baron, as author and woman, exemplifies the long lasting impact of her early traditional education that held her back from giving full expression to her imaginative and creative abilities. Focusing on approximately the same time frame, Norma Fain Pratt argues that Yiddish women writers as well were both accepted and rejected by their male dominated traditional milieu. Her article “Culture and Radical Politics: Yiddish Women Writers in America, 1890–1940,” argues that, although an important group, radical Yiddish women poets of the early decades of the century were mostly immigrants who were isolated from each other. Poets like Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin, and Kadya Molodowsky felt they had broken tradition and were acting outside their assigned female roles. In “Looking at Yezierska,” Laura Wexler calls for a radical reconsideration of the work and life of Anzia Yezierska, the early American immigrant writer who is best known as the author..." @default.
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