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    Women's Studies

    Cover of Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews
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    Graph­ic Details: Jew­ish Women’s Con­fes­sion­al Comics in Essays and Interviews
    Sarah Lightman, ed.
    Cover of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
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    Prac­tic­ing Piety in Medieval Ashke­naz: Men, Women, and Every­day Reli­gious Observance
    Elisheva Baumgarten
    Cover of A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987
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    A Ques­tion of Tra­di­tion: Women Poets in Yid­dish, 1586 – 1987
    Kathryn Hellerstein
    Cover of Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment, and the Women’s Rituals of Baking, Bathing, and Brightening
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    Chanah’s Voice: A Rab­bi Wres­tles with Gen­der, Com­mand­ment, and the Women’s Rit­u­als of Bak­ing, Bathing, and Brightening
    Haviva Ner-David
    Cover of The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900-1960
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    The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900 – 1960
    Laura Schor
    Cover of Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
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    Holo­caust Moth­ers and Daugh­ters: Fam­i­ly, His­to­ry, and Trauma
    Frederica K. Clementi
    Essay

    Hele­na Rubin­stein and the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Ear­li­er this week Michèle Fitous­si wrote about her fas­ci­na­tion, her research mate­ri­als, and her favorite episodes from Hele­na Rubin­stein’s life. Her biog­ra­phy on…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 17, 2014
    Essay

    Michèle Fitous­si’s Favorite Episodes in Hele­na Rubin­stein’s Biography

    When writ­ing a biog­ra­phy, a biog­ra­ph­er comes across a wealth of infor­ma­tion about their sub­ject. While one tries their best to be objec­tive while they…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 16, 2014
    Essay

    On Writ­ing a Biog­ra­phy of Hele­na Rubinstein

    Michèle Fitous­si is the author of screen­plays, fic­tion and non-fic­tion, includ­ing the inter­na­tion­al best­sellers Superwoman’s had Enough and The Pris­on­er. She also…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 14, 2014
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    Phe­nom­e­nal Female Entrepreneurs
    Jill Bryant
    Cover of Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives
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    Chap­ters of the Heart: Jew­ish Women Shar­ing the Torah of our Lives
    Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Birth of the Pill
    Jonathan Eig
    Cover of Sex After...: Women Share How Intimacy Changes as Life Changes
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    Sex After…: Women Share How Inti­ma­cy Changes as Life Changes
    Iris Kras­now
    Cover of The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom
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    The War on Women in Israel: A Sto­ry of Reli­gious Rad­i­cal­ism and the Women Fight­ing for Freedom
    Elana Sztok­man
    Essay

    10 Ways You Can Pro­mote Gen­der Equal­i­ty in Your Local School

    Ear­li­er this week, Dr. Elana Maryles Sztok­man wrote about sev­en places where reli­gious rad­i­cal­ism threat­ens wom­en’s well-being in Israel and ten inspir­ing ways that…
    Elana Sztok­man
    May 16, 2014
    Essay

    10 Inspir­ing Ways That Women Are Fight­ing for Jus­tice in Israel

    Ear­li­er this week, Dr. Elana Maryles Sztok­man wrote about sev­en places where reli­gious rad­i­cal­ism threat­ens wom­en’s well-being in Israel. She is the author of the…
    Elana Sztok­man
    May 14, 2014
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