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NEXT YEAR I WILL KNOW MORE
LITERACY AND IDENTITY AMONG YOUNG ORTHODOX WOMEN IN ISRAEL |
| By: |
Tamar El-Or, Haim Watzman (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£44.95 |
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£43.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0814327729 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780814327722 |
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| Publisher: |
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2002 |
| Series: |
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Translated from: |
Hebrew |
| Description: |
Focusing on the experiences of religious women who participated in a midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, this book explores the spreading practice of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious Zionist community. |
| Synopsis: |
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 this book, the Israeli anthropologist Tamar El-Or explores the spreading practice of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious Zionist community. 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 a narrative that offers 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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US |
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Wayne State University Press |
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