Jewish Studies

Women and Judaism

“To Reveal Our Hearts”: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia

Carole B. Balin

Examines the lives and works of five Jewish women writers in ninteenth century Russia.

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective

Second Edition

Edited by Judith R. Baskin

A collection of fully revised and new essays that explore the richness of Jewish women’s history.

Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape

Nehama Aschkenasy

In creative, analytical retellings of biblical tales about women, Aschkenasy sheds new light on the place of women in the ancient world.

Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America

Dianne Ashton

The first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz, perhaps the best-known member of the prominent Gratz family of Philadelphia and the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century.

Women Rabbis: Exploration and Celebration —Papers Delivered at an Academic Conference Honoring Twenty Years of Women in the Rabbinate 1972–1992

Edited by Gary P. Zola

This collection of essays by distinguished rabbis and scholars seeks to answer intriguing questions about the existence of women in the modern rabbinate.

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England

Michael Galchinsky

Analyzes the haskalah, or Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment—a critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women’s writing.