Jewish Studies

History

Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist

Elizabeth Loentz

Recounts the life of Bertha Pappenheim, an influential and well-known author and activist for Jewish and feminist causes in early twentieth-century Germany.

My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland

Edward Fram

A study of Rabbi Benjamin Slonik’s Seder mitzvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments) that illuminates the intersection of rabbinic law and women’s education.