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Women's Studies

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The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Tele­vi­sion Writer
Rita Lakin
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Excerpt: Sis­ters in Law

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Lin­da Hirshman
August 27, 2015
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A Scribe Among Scribes

Diana Blet­ter is the author of A Remark­able Kind­ness and lives in Israel. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.I was…
Diana Blet­ter
August 24, 2015
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Ravens­brück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Con­cen­tra­tion Camp for Women
Sarah Helm
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Israeli Fem­i­nist Schol­ar­ship: Gen­der, Zion­ism, and Difference
Esther Fuchs
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Sis­ters in Law: How San­dra Day O’Con­nor and Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Lin­da Hirshman
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Brave Girls: Rais­ing Young Women with Pas­sion and Pur­pose to become Pow­er­ful leaders
Stacey Radin
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On Your Case
Lisa Green
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Women of Val­or: Pol­ish Resisters to the Third Reich
Joanne D. Gilbert
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Uncov­ered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Final­ly Came Home
Leah Lax
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What the Life­time Adap­ta­tion of Ani­ta Dia­man­t’s The Red Tent Missed

Ear­li­er this week, Michal Lem­berg­er wrote about turn­ing King David into a vil­lain and Lot’s wife and the oth­er name­less women of the Bible. She is the author of the…
Michal Lem­berg­er
April 24, 2015
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Look­ing Back at Lot’s Wife

Michal Lem­berg­er is the author of the book After Abel and Oth­er Sto­ries. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.Lot’s Wife.…
Michal Lem­berg­er
April 20, 2015
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After Abel and Oth­er Stories
Michal Lem­berg­er
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Ele­na Kagan: A Biography
Meg Greene
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Sex vs. Sur­vival: The Life and Ideas of Sabi­na Spielrein
John Launer
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Jew­ish Mad Women

Ker­ri P. Stein­berg is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of art his­to­ry at Otis Col­lege of Art and Design in Los Ange­les. She is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished book Jew­ish…
Ker­ri P. Steinberg
January 26, 2015
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