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Women's Studies

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Four Cen­turies of Jew­ish Wom­en’s Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty: A Sourcebook
Ellen M. Umansky & Dianne Ashton, eds. and intro.
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Chil­dren’s
Rashi’s Daugh­ter: Secret Scholar
Mag­gie Anton
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Chil­dren’s
Grav­i­ty
Leanne Lieber­man
Essay

Des­ti­na­tion Bat Mitzvahs

Ear­li­er this week, Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick wrote about the his­to­ry of the bat miz­vah and Bar­bara Vinick shared her own sto­ry. Today, Shu­lamit Rein­harz…
Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
January 13, 2012
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Jew­ish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and Culture
Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds,; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.
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Lev­el­ing the Play­ing Field: Advanc­ing Women in the Jew­ish Orga­ni­za­tion­al Life
Shifra Bronznick, Didi Goldenhar, and Marty Linksy
Essay

The Sis­ter­hood of Bat Mitzvah

On Mon­day, Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick wrote about the his­to­ry of the bat mitz­vah for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing. Today, Bar­bara Vinick…
Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
January 11, 2012
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Chil­dren’s
Naomi’s Song
Selma Kritzer Silverberg
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Where We Find Our­selves: Jew­ish Women Around the World Write About Home
Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen, eds.
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Anglo-Jew­ish Women Writ­ing the Holo­caust: Dis­placed Witnesses
Phyllis Lassner
Essay

Today I Am a Woman

Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick are the edi­tors of the recent­ly pub­lished Today I Am a Woman: Sto­ries of Bat Mitz­vah around the World. They will be…
Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
January 9, 2012
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Today I Am a Woman: Sto­ries of Bat Mitz­vah around the World
Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz, eds.
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Lil­lian Wald: A Biography
Marjorie N. Feld
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Nehama Lei­bowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar
Yael Unterman
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Tak­ing Tamar
Martha Lev-Zion
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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Miss­ing Agents of World War II
Sarah Helm
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