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Bibliography: Women in Judaism

Abrams, Judith Z., The Women of the Talmud, Northvale NJ, Jason Aronson, 1995, ISBN: 1-568212-83-6, Buy/Reviews.

Adelman, Penina V., Miriam's Well: Rituals for Jewish Women Around the Year, No City, Biblio Pr, 1996, ISBN: 0-930395-11-5, Buy/Reviews.

Adler, Rachel, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics, Philadelphia, PA, Jewish Publication Society, 1998, ISBN: 0-827605-84-6, Buy/Reviews.

Aiken, Lisa, To Be a Jewish Woman, Northvale NJ, Jason Aronson, 1994, ISBN: 1-568211-53-8, Buy/Reviews.

Alpert, Rebecca, Like Bread on the Seder Plate, NYC, Columbia Univ Pr, 1998, ISBN: 0-231096-61-5, Buy/Reviews.

Anderson, Sherry Ruth; Hopkins, Patricia, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, NYC, Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, 1992, ISBN: 0-553352-66-0, Buy/Reviews.

Antler, Joyce, The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century, New York, Free Press, 1997, ISBN: 0805211012, Buy/Reviews.

Antonelli, Judith S., In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah, NJ, Jason Aronson, 1996, ISBN: 0765799529, Buy/Reviews.

Antonelli, Judith S., Torah and Feminism, NJ, Jason Aronson, 1995.

Ashton, Dianne, Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America, Detroit MI, Wayne State University Press, 1998.

Auerbach, David, Halichot Beitah, Jerusalem, Machon Sharei Ziv, 1983.

Balka, Christie ; Rose, Andy (ed.). (ed.), Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish, No City, Beacon Pr, 1991, ISBN: 0-807079-09-X, Buy/Reviews.

Balka, Christie and Andy Rose (ed.), Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish, Boston, Beacon Press, 1989, ISBN: 0765799529, Buy/Reviews.

Baskin, Judith (ed.), Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1991, ISBN: 0814327133, Buy/Reviews.

Baskin, Judith R. (ed.), Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1994, ISBN: 0814324231, Buy/Reviews.

Berkovits, Eliezer, Jewish Women in Time and Torah, Hoboken, NJ, KTAV Pub. House, 1990.

Bernstein, Deborah S. (ed.), Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel, Albany NY, SUNY Press, 1992.

Biale, Rachel, Women and Jewish Law : An Exploration of Women's Issues in Halakhic Sources, NYC, Schocken, 1984.

Bird, Phyllis A., Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel, No City, Fortress Press, 1997.

Bletter, Diana, The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, Philadelphia, PA, Jewish Publication Society, 1989, ISBN: 0-827603-33-9, Buy/Reviews.

Brayer, Menachem M., The Jewish Woman in Rabbinic Literature. A Psychohistorical Perspective, Hoboken, NJ, Ktav, 1986, ISBN: 0881250724, Buy/Reviews.

Brewer, Joan Scherer, Lynn Davidman, and Evelyn Gross Avery, Sex and the Modern Jewish Woman: An Annotated Bibliography, Fresh Meadows, N.Y, Biblio Press, 1986.

Bridenthal, Renate,ta (et. al.), When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany, NYC, Monthly Review Press, 1984.

Brody, Leslie (ed.), Daughters of Kings: Growing Up As a Jewish Woman in America, NYC, Faber & Faber, 1997, ISBN: 0-571199-19-4, Buy/Reviews.

Broner, E. M., Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals, No City, Council Oak Distribution, 1999, ISBN: 1-571780-84-X, Buy/Reviews.

Broner, E.M., The Telling - The Story of a Group of Jewish Women who Journey to Spirituality Through Community and Ceremony, NYC, Harpercollins, 1993, ISBN: 9-992334-49-5, Buy/Reviews.

Cantor, Aviva, Jewish Women/Jewish Men: The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life, New York, Harper Collins, 1995, ISBN: 0060613769, Buy/Reviews.

Carnay, Janet,ta (et. al.), The Jewish Woman's Awareness Guide, New York, BIblio Press, 1992.

Caspi, Mishael Maswari, and Deborah Lipstadt, Daughters of Yemen, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1985, ISBN: 0520051394, Buy/Reviews.

Clanton, Jann Aldredge, In Whose Image?: God and Gender, No City, Crossroad Publishing Company, 1990, ISBN: 0-824510-31-3, Buy/Reviews.

Davidman, Lynn, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991.

Davidman, Lynn and Shelly Tanenbaum (ed.), Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1994, ISBN: 0300068670, Buy/Reviews.

Diamant, Anita, The Red Tent, NYC, Picador USA, 1998, ISBN: 0-312195-51-6, Buy/Reviews.

Feingold, Henry L., gen (ed.), The Jewish People in America, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, ISBN: 080184486x, Buy/Reviews.

Fine, Irene, Midlife: A Rite of Passage and the Wise Woman: A Celebration, San Diego, Womans Inst Cont Jewish Educ, 1988, ISBN: 0-960805-47-8, Buy/Reviews.

Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schussler, But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992, ISBN: 0807012157, Buy/Reviews.

Fishman, Sylvia Barack, A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community, New York, Free Press, 1993, ISBN: 0874517060, Buy/Reviews.

Frankel, Ellen, The Five Books of Miriam; A Woman's Commentary on the Torah, NYC, Putnam Pub Group, 1996, ISBN: 0-399141-95-2, Buy/Reviews.

Frankiel, Tamar, Voice of Sarah: Feminine Spirituality and Traditional Judaism, San Francisco, Harper Collins, 1990, ISBN: 0930395220, Buy/Reviews.

Freedman, Marcia, Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir, No City, Firebrand Books, 1990.

Ghatan, H.E. Yedidia, The Invaluable Pearl: The Unique Status of Women in Judaism, New York, Bloch, 1986, ISBN: 0819705020, Buy/Reviews.

Glenn, Susan Anita, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1990, ISBN: 0801497590, Buy/Reviews.

Goldstein, Elyse, ReVisions: Seeing Torah Through a Feminist Lens, No City, Jewish Lights Pub, 1999, ISBN: 1-580230-47-4, Buy/Reviews.

Gordis, Robert, Love & Sex: A Modern Jewish Perspective, New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1978.

Gottlieb, Lynn, She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism, San Francisco, CA, Harper San Francisco, 1995, ISBN: 0-060632-92-5, Buy/Reviews.

Greenberg, Blu, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1983, ISBN: 0671602705, Buy/Reviews.

Greenberg, Blu, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition, Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1981, ISBN: 082760226x, Buy/Reviews.

Greenberg, Simon, The Ordination of Women as Rabbis: Studies and Responsa, Moreshet Series V. 14, New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1988.

Grossman, Susan and Haut, Rivka (ed.), Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue, Philadelphia, PA, Jewish Publication Society, 1994, ISBN: 0-827604-41-6, Buy/Reviews.

Gurock, Jeffrey S. and Marc Lee Raphael (ed.), An Inventory of Promises: Essays on American Jewish History in Honor of Moses Rischin, Brooklyn, Carlson, 1995, ISBN: 0926019902, Buy/Reviews.

Handelman, Susan and Elper,Ora Wiskind (Eds.), Torah of the Mothers : Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts, No City, Lambda Pub Inc, 2000, ISBN: 9-657108-23-3, Buy/Reviews.

Hauptman, Judith, Rereading the Rabbis : A Woman's Voice, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1999, ISBN: 0-813334-06-3, Buy/Reviews.

Heinze, Andrew, Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the Search for American Identity, New York, New York University Press, 1990.

Henry, Sondra and Emily Taitz, Written Out of History: Our Jewish Foremothers, New York, Biblio Press, 1990, ISBN: 0930395107, Buy/Reviews.

Heschel, Susannah, On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader, NYC, Schocken, 1983.

Hyman, Naomi Mara, Biblical Women in the Midrash: A Sourcebook, New Jersey, Jason Aronson, 1997.

Hyman, Paula, Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: Roles and Representations of Women, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1995, ISBN: 0295974265, Buy/Reviews.

Hyman, Paula E. and Deborah Dash Moore (ed.), Jewish Women in America, NYC, Routledge, 1997.

Hymen, Paula E., and Deborah Dash Moore, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, NYC, Routledge, 1997, ISBN: 0415919363, Buy/Reviews.

Joselit, Jenna Weissman, The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880- 1950, New York, Hill and Wang, 1994, ISBN: 0809015862, Buy/Reviews.

Kamel, Rose Yalow, Aggravating the Conscience: Jewish-American Literary Mothers in the Promised Lan d, New York, P. Lang, 1988, ISBN: 082040554x, Buy/Reviews.

Kates, Judith, and Gail Twersky Reimer (ed.), Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story, New York, Ballantine Books, 1994, ISBN: 0345380320, Buy/Reviews.

Katex, Judith A. and Reimer, Gail Twersky (ed.), Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story, No City, Jewish Lights Pub, 1997, ISBN: 1-879045-15-X, Buy/Reviews.

Kaufman, Deborah Renee, Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women, New Brunswick, N.J, Rutgers University Press, 1991, ISBN: 0813516382, Buy/Reviews.

Kessner, Carole S. (ed.), The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals, New York, New York University Press, 1994, ISBN: 0814746608, Buy/Reviews.

Koltun, Elizabeth (ed.), The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives, New York, Schocken, 1976.

Koonz, Claudia, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics, NYC, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Kornbluth, Doron and Kornbluth, Sarah Tikvah (ed.), Jewish Women Speak About Jewish Matters, No City, Feldheim Publishers, 2000, ISBN: 1-568711-51-4, Buy/Reviews.

Kuzmack, Linda Gordon, Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States 1881-1933, Columbus, Ohio State University, 1990, ISBN: 0814205151, Buy/Reviews.

Levitt, Laura, Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home, NYC, Routledge, 1997, ISBN: 0-415914-45-0, Buy/Reviews.

Levitt, Laura and Miriam Peskowitz (ed.), Judaism Since Gender, NYC, Routledge, 1997.

Lichtenstein, Diane, Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1992, ISBN: 0253333466, Buy/Reviews.

Linzer, Norman, The Jewish Family: Authority and Tradition in Modern Perspective, New York, Human Sciences Press, 1984.

Manning, Christel, God Gave Us the Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple With Feminism, New Bruswick, NJ, Rutgers Univ Press, 1999, ISBN: 0-813525-99-3, Buy/Reviews.

Marcus, Jacob R., The American Jewish Woman 1654-1980, New York, Ktav, 1981, ISBN: 0870687514, Buy/Reviews.

Marcus, Jacob R., The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History, New York, Ktav, 1981, ISBN: 0870687522, Buy/Reviews.

Meiselman, M., Jewish Woman in Jewish Law, NYC, Ktav Publishing House, 1978, ISBN: 0-870683-29-2, Buy/Reviews.

Meyers, Carol, Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN: 0195065816, Buy/Reviews.

Moore, Tracy, Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives, NYC, Cassell, 1995.

Moskowitz, Faye, A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life, No City, David Goodine, 1985, ISBN: 0-879235-51-9, Buy/Reviews.

Nadell, Pamela Susan. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889-1985. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Ochs, Vanessa L., Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey into the Sacred, San Diego, New York, London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990, ISBN: 0813367182, Buy/Reviews.

Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzman (ed.), Women In The Holocaust, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1998.

Orenstein, Debra (ed.), Lifecycles V. 1: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones, No City, Jewish Lights Pub, 1994, ISBN: 1-879045-14-1, Buy/Reviews.

Orenstein, Debra ; Litman, Jane Rachel (ed) (ed.), Lifecycles V. 2: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life, No City, Jewish Lights Pub, 1997, ISBN: 1-879045-15-X, Buy/Reviews.

Orenstein, Walter, Letters to my Daughter: A Father Writes about Torah and the Jewish Woman, NJ, Jason Aronson, 1996, ISBN: 1568213875, Buy/Reviews.

Orsborn, Carol, Return from Exile: One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism, No City, Continuum Pub Group, 1998, ISBN: 0-826411-02-9, Buy/Reviews.

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin, Feminist Revision and the Bible, Oxford, England, Blackwell Publishers, 1993.

Plaskow Judith and Christ, Carol, Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, San Francisco, Harper and Row, 1992, ISBN: 0-060613-77-7, Buy/Reviews.

Plaskow, Judith, Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1990, ISBN: 0060666846, Buy/Reviews.

Plaskow, Judith ; Christ, Carol P. (ed.). (ed.), Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, NYC, Harper San Francisco, 1989, ISBN: 0-060613-83-1, Buy/Reviews.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin, Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America, New York, Crown Publishing Group, 1991, ISBN: 0385425120, Buy/Reviews.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin and Deborah, Golda, Being Female and Jewish in America, NYC, Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1992, ISBN: 0-385425-12-0, Buy/Reviews.

Raver, Miki, Listen to Her Voice : Women of the Hebrew Bible, No City, Chronicle Books, 1998, ISBN: 0-811818-95-0, Buy/Reviews.

Reimer, Gail Twersky ; Kates, Judith A. (ed) (ed.), Beginning Anew: A Woman's Companion to the High Holy Days, NYC, Touchstone Books, 1997, ISBN: 0-684826-87-9, Buy/Reviews.

Rogow, Faith, Gone to Another Meeting: The National Council of Jewish Women 1893- 1993, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1993.

Rotem, Yehudit, Distant Sisters: The Women I Left Behind, Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1997, ISBN: 0827605838, Buy/Reviews.

Rudavsky, T.M. (ed.), Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Traditions, New York, New York University Press, 1995, ISBN: 0814774539, Buy/Reviews.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford (ed.), Womanguides: Readings Toward a Feminist Theology, No City, Beacon Pr, 1996, ISBN: 0-807012-35-1, Buy/Reviews.

Rush, Barbara, The Book of Jewish Women's Tales, Northvale NJ, Jason Aronson, 1994, ISBN: 1-568210-87-6, Buy/Reviews.

Sacks, Maurie (ed.), Active Voices: Women in Jewish Culture, Urbana-Campaign, University of Illinois Press, 1995, ISBN: 0252064534, Buy/Reviews.

Schneider, Susan, Jewish and Female, NYC, Simon and Schuster, 1984, ISBN: 0-671604-39-2, Buy/Reviews.

Schneider, Susan Weidman, Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today, NYC, Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Seltzer, Robert M. and Norman J. Cohen (ed.), The Americanization of the Jews, New York, New York University Press, 1995.

Shapiro, Sarah (ed.), More of Our Lives: An anthology of Jewish Women's Writings, Southfield, MI, Targum Press Inc, 1993.

Shapiro, Sarah (ed.), Our Lives: An Anthology of Jewish Women's Writings, Southfield, MI, Targum Press Inc, 1991.

Shepherd, Naomi, A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1993, ISBN: 0674704118, Buy/Reviews.

Spiegel, Marcia C.;Kremsdorf, Deborah L. (ed.), Women Speak to God: The Prayers and Poems of Jewish Women, San Diego, Womans Inst Cont Jewish Educ, 1987, ISBN: 0-960805-46-X, Buy/Reviews.

Steinsaltz, Adin, Biblical Images. Men and Women of the Book, NYC, Basic Books, 1984.

Teubal, Savina J., Ancient Sisterhood: The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah, No City, Ohio Univ Pr, 1997, ISBN: 0-804010-01-3, Buy/Reviews.

Teubal, Savina J., Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis, No City, Swallow Pr, 1993, ISBN: 0-804008-44-2, Buy/Reviews.

Tolley, Jackie, On Our Spiritual Journey Creative Shabbat Service, San Diego, Womans Inst Cont Jewish Educ, 1984, ISBN: 0-960805-43-5, Buy/Reviews.

Umansky, Ellen M, and Dianne Ashton (ed.), Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992, ISBN: 0807036137, Buy/Reviews.

Wagenknecht, Edward, Daughters of the Covenant: Portraits of Six Jewish Women, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1983, ISBN: 0870233963, Buy/Reviews.

Wegner, Judith Romney, Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN: 0195051696, Buy/Reviews.

Weinberg, Sidney Stahl, The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Wenkart, Henny (ed.), Sarah's Daughters Sing: A Sampler of Poems by Jewish Women, NYC, Ktav Publishing House, 1990, ISBN: 0-881253-48-0, Buy/Reviews.

Winter, Miriam Therese; Craighead, Meinrad (illustrator), Womanwisdom: A Feminist Lectionary and Psalter: Women of the Hebrew Scriptures, No City, Crossroad Pub Co, 1992, ISBN: 0-824511-41-7, Buy/Reviews.

Wolowelsky, Joel B., Women, Jewish Law, and Modernity: New Opportunities in a Post-Feminist Age, NYC, Ktav Publishing House, 1997, ISBN: 0881255742, Buy/Reviews.

Yishai, Yael., Between the Flag and the Banner: Women in Israeli Politics, Albany, SUNY Press, 1996.

Zones, Jane Sprague, (ed.), Taking the Fruit: Modern Women's Tales of the Bible, San Diego, Women's Institute for Continuing Education, 1990, ISBN: 0-960805-48-6, Buy/Reviews.

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