An investigation into the education of women in the religious
Zionist community and its influence on Orthodox Judaism.
In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy
education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently, women
have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes
the Talmud and midrashic books. But the situation is changing,
partly because of the special emphasis that modern Judaism places
on learning its philosophy and traditions and on broadening its
circle of knowers. In Next Year I Will Know More, the distinguished
Israeli anthropologist Tamar El-Or explores the spreading practice
of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious Zionist
community -- a revolutionary phenomenon that will transform
Orthodox Judaism over time.
Focusing on the experiences of religious women who participated
in a midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, the author, a secular Jew,
succeeded in gaining their confidence and penetrating their world.
El-Or observed these women in a learning context where they debated
Jewish orthodox views of women, a process that enriched her
understanding of their identity formation. She explores their own
learning experience through discourse analysis and through
conversations with them and their male instructors.
Feminist literacy, notes El-Or, will alter gender relations and
the construction of gender identities of the members of the
religious community. This in turn could effect theological and
Jewish legal changes. In an engaging narrative that offers rare
insights into a traditional society in the midst of a modern world,
the author points to a community that will be more feminist -- and
even more religious.
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