The Tribe of Dina

The Tribe of Dina PDF Author: Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807036051
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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In richly diverse essays, stories, memoirs, poems, and interviews, the contributors to this collection affirm the depth of Jewish women's participation in Jewish life and give strength to feminist struggles in the Jewish community.

The Tribe of Dina

The Tribe of Dina PDF Author: Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807036051
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Book Description
In richly diverse essays, stories, memoirs, poems, and interviews, the contributors to this collection affirm the depth of Jewish women's participation in Jewish life and give strength to feminist struggles in the Jewish community.

Dina's Lost Tribe

Dina's Lost Tribe PDF Author: Brigitte Goldstein
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450251099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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An American historians search for her mythical birthplace leads her to an isolated mountaintop utopia and the passionate world of a medieval Jewess. When Professor Henry Henner Marcus receives an urgent plea for help from his cousin and fellow historian Nina Aschauer, he abruptly leaves Chicago and travels to the South of France where Nina has suddenly rematerialized after having disappeared without a trace five years before. While on sabbatical in Toulouse, France, Nina is compelled to search for the mythical place in the Pyrenean Mountains where she was born during her parents flight from Nazi persecution. All she knows is the name, but no Valladine can be found on any map. Her inquiries lead her to an encounter with Alphonse de Sola, a rough-hewn shepherd who offers to take her to the place. What she finds is love, a medieval outpost arrested in time, and a mysterious codex written in Hebrew letters that arouses her scholarly interest. As Henner, Nina, and her best friend, Etoile Assous, conspire to decipher the writing, they enter the passionate world of a fourteenth-century Jewess, who calls herself Dina, whose family was forced to flee France following the expulsion of the Jews from the kingdom in 1306, while she herself had fallen victim to the sexual intrigues of a fiendish priest.

The Red Tent

The Red Tent PDF Author: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312169787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah shares her perspective on religious practices and sexul politics.

Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega

Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega PDF Author: Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557530448
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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She takes into account plays that reveal their conventional, formulaic views of the Christian feminine ideal as well as those whose variety and flexibility present women subverting their expected roles. By identifying moments of resistance and subversion in the texts the author argues against excessively monolithic interpretations of such discourses of containment.

Judaism III

Judaism III PDF Author: Michael Tilly
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
ISBN: 3170325892
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume III completes this ambitious project with profound chapters on Modern Jewish Culture, Halakhah (Jewish Law), Jewish Languages, Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Literature, Feminism and Gender, and on Judaism and inter-faith relations.

Names We Call Home

Names We Call Home PDF Author: Becky Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135770964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobiographical essays, poetry, and interviews to highlight the historical, social, and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice.

Queer Expectations

Queer Expectations PDF Author: Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438472234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures. Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy” as a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both invoke and resist what came before. Bringing together Jewish women’s poetry from the late nineteenth century, the interwar period, and the 1970s and 1980s, Weiman-Kelman takes readers on a boundary-crossing journey through works in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, setting up encounters between writers of different generations, locations, and languages. Queer Expectationshighlights genealogical lines of continuity drawn by authors as diverse as Emma Lazarus, Kadya Molodowsky, Leah Goldberg, Anna Margolin, Irena Klepfisz, and Adrienne Rich. These poets push back against heteronormative imperatives of biological reproduction and inheritance, opting instead for connections that twist traditional models of gender and history. Looking backward in queer ways enables new histories to emerge, intervenes in a troubled present, and gives hope for unexpected futures. “Queer Expectations is one of the most original books of literary analysis, historiography, biography, and queer theory I have ever read. Its originality and its methodology turn traditional ways of thinking about literary analysis, questions of influence, and what queer can mean upside down. This is a truly brilliant book.” — Evelyn Torton Beck, editor of Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, Revised and Updated Edition

Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters

Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters PDF Author: Janet Burstein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The Colors of Jews

The Colors of Jews PDF Author: Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253219272
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India. Kaye/Kantrowitz delves into the largely uncharted territory of Jews of color and argues that Jews are an increasingly multiracial people. From publisher description.

Who Were the Phoenicians?

Who Were the Phoenicians? PDF Author: Nissim Raphael Ganor
Publisher: Kotarim International Publi
ISBN: 9659141521
Category : Exodus, The
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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