Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in
what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking
personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities
and informed their experiences in innumerable, meaningful ways.
Survivors, witnesses, defenders, innovators, and healers, these
women question, celebrate, and transmit Jewish and feminist values
in hopes that they might bridge the differences among Jewish women.
They invite both Jewish and non-Jewish readers to share in their
discussions and stories that convey and celebrate the multiplicity
of Jewish backgrounds, attitudes, and issues.In Celebrating the
Lives of Jewish Women, you will read about cultural, religious, and
gender choices, conversion to Judaism, family patterns, Jewish
immigrant experiences, the complexities of Jewish secular
identities, antisemitism, sexism, and domestic violence in the
Jewish community. As the pages unfold in this wonderful book of
personal odysseys, the colorful patterns of Jewish women s lives
are laid before you. You will find much cause for rejoicing, as the
authors weave together their compelling and unique stories about:
midlife Bat mitzvah preparations the transmission of Jewish values
by Sephardi and Ashkenazi grandmothers traditional Sephardi customs
the sorrow and healing involved in coping with the Holocaust a
lesbian s fascination with Kafka the external and internal
obstacles Jewish women encounter in their efforts to study Jewish
topics and participate in Jewish ritual becoming a
Reconstructionist rabbi the difficulties and benefits of being the
teenaged daughter of a rabbiA harmonious chorus of individual
voices, Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women will delight and
inspire Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. It reminds each of us
how diverse and distinctive Jewish women s lives are, as well as
how united they can be under the wonderful fold of Judaism. This
book will be of great interest to all women, as well as to rabbis,
Jewish community leaders and professionals, mental health workers,
and those in Jewish studies, women s studies, and multicultural
studies.
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