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This beautifully written memoir is composed of linked stories about
growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, when
children spent most of their time, from birth on, in a Children's
House. This memoir starts with a Prologue drawn from the diaries of
Rachel Biale's mother and the letters her parents exchanged while
her father served in the British army. With excerpts from these
documents, she describes how the long trials and tribulations that
encompassed her parents dangerous escape from Eastern Europe to
Israel - fleeing from the Nazis from Prague in 1939, five years of
dangerous sea voyages, and long internments in British refugee
camps. Throughout these ordeals, her parents socialist and Zionist
values sustained them and eventually brought them to their kibbutz.
The middle and main section of the memoir is devoted to Rachel's
growing up as a kibbutz child. While Rachel's parents soon realized
that no community can live up to its utopian ideals, Rachel's youth
on kibbutz was a robust and buoyant one. Rachel pens 24 beautifully
written and engaging stories about her kibbutz childhood -- from
earliest memories at age three as part of a children's society, to
her army service at age twenty. The stories focus on the world of
children, but also offer a window into the lives of the adult
kibbutz members, including Holocaust survivors. The book ends with
a Postscript-as Rachel revisits her kibbutz and updates the stories
of her childhood companions.
How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of
women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce,
sexuality, contraception, abortion? "Women and Jewish Law "gives
contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish
religious tradition on issues of special concern to women.
Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist
critique, this pathbreaking study points the way for "informed
change" in the status of women in Jewish life.
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