Recent Scholarship on Women in Judaism
Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism : an inclusive theology and ethics.Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, c1998. BM729 .W6 A29 1998
Arendt, Hannah. Rahel Varnhagen : the life of a Jewess. edited by Liliane Weissberg ; translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. DS135 .G5 V474 1997
Bach, Alice (ed.). Women in the Hebrew Bible : a reader. New York : Routledge, 1998. BS 1199 .W7 W655 1998
________ (ed.). The Pleasure of her text : feminist readings of Biblical & historical texts.
Publication info: Philadelphia : Trinity Press International, 1990. BS 575 .P55 1990Baskin, Judith Reesa, and Shelly Tenenbaum, editors. Gender & Jewish studies : a curriculum guide. New York : Biblio Press, 1994. BM 729 .W6 G445 1994
Berkovic, Sally. Straight talk : my dilemma as an Orthodox Jewish woman. Hoboken, NJ : KTAV Pub. House, c1999. [Note: Originally published: Under my hat. London : Joseph's Bookstore, 1997.] BM726 .B49 1999
Berlin, Adele. Bible. O.T. Esther. Hebrew. 2001. Philadephia : Jewish Publication Society, 2001.
Brenner, Athalya. The Israelite woman : social role and literary type in biblical narrative. Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, 1985. BS 680 .W7 B736 1985
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Writing as resistance : four women confronting the Holocaust : Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne, Frank, Etty Hillesum. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. D804.19 .B74 1997
Brooke, George J. (ed.). Women in the biblical tradition. Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 1992. BS 680 .W7 W555 1992
Camp, Claudia V. Wise, strange and holy : the strange woman and the making of the Bible. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c2000. BS1199 .W7 C36 2000
Cohen, Sarah Blacher, ed. Making a scene : the contemporary drama of Jewish-American women, and with an introduction by Sarah Blacher Cohen. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1997. PS628 .J47 M35 1997
Courtine-Denamy, Sylvie. Three women in dark times : Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, or, Amor fati, amor mundi. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000. B3332 .S674 C6813 2000
Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn, Daniel J. Harrington, William H. Shea (eds.).The Sabbath in Jewish and Christian. New York : Crossroad, 1991. BV 111 .S32 1991
Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn. In an age of prose : a literary approach to Ezra-Nehemiah. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1988. BS 1355.2 .E85 1988
Frankel, Ellen. The five books of Miriam : a woman's commentary on the Torah. New York : G.P. Putnam's, c1996. BS 1225.3 .F67 1996
Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. In the Wake of the Goddesses : Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. BL 473.5 .F78 1992
Fuchs, Esther. Sexual politics in the biblical narrative : reading the Hebrew Bible as a woman / Esther Fuchs. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c2000. BS1199 .W7 F834 2000
Fuchs, Lawrence H.. Beyond patriarchy : Jewish fathers and families. Hanover: Published by University Press of New England, Brandeis University Press, c 2000. BM627 .F83 2000
Goldman, Karla. Beyond the synagogue gallery : finding a place for women in American Judaism. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000. BM729 .W6 G65 2000
Goldstein, Elyse. ReVisions : seeing Torah through a feminist lens. Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights, 1998.
________, ed. The women's Torah commentary : new insights from women rabbis on the 54 weekly Torah portions. Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Publishing, c2000. BS1225.3 .G578 2000
Greenberg, Blu. On women & Judaism : a view from tradition. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America,1994 printing, c1981. BM 729 .W6 G73 1994
Glueckel of Hameln, 1646-1724. The memoirs of Glückel of Hameln / translated with notes by Marvin Lowenthal ; new introd. by Robert S. Rosen. New York : Schocken Books, 1977, c1932. DS135.G5 H33813 1977
Hartman, Moshe, and Harriet Hartman. Gender equality and American Jews.Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1996 E 184 .J5 H345 1996
Hauptman, Judith. Development of the Talmudic sugya : relationship between Tannaitic and Amoraic sources. Lanham : University Press of America, c1988., BM 503.6 .H38 1988
Hyman, Paula, and Deborah Dash Moore. Jewish women in America : an historical encyclopedia. New York : Routledge, 1997. DS 115.2 .J49 1997
Ilan, Tal. Integrating women into Second Temple history. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c1999. BM 729 .W6 I434 1999
________. Mine and yours are hers : Retrieving Women's history from rabbinic literature. Kinderhook, NY : Brill, 1997. BM 509 .W7 I43 1997
________. History of Jewish women in late antiquityJerusalem : Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rothberg School for Overseas Students, 1994. BM 729 .W6 H578 1994
Ingall, Carol K. A leader's guide to the study of The Jewish moral virtues Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2000. BJ1280 .I54 2000
Regina Jonas, shortly after her ordination in Dec. 1935. She wrote the following on the back: "18. Febr. 36, Iranische Str. 3. Jued. Altersheim, Rosenberg" and in Hebrew from Exodus 3.14 "I will be who I will be."
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Jonas, Regina, 1902-1944. Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas : kann die Frau das rabbinische Amt bekleiden?: eine Streitschrift ediert, kommentiert, eingeleitet von Elisa Klapheck ; mit einem Vorwort von Hermann Simon. Hentrich & Hentrich, 1999. BM652 .J66 1999
Lambdan, Ruth. A Separate People : Jewish Women in Palestine, Syria and Egypt in the Sixteenth Century. Boston : Brill, 2000. BM729 .W6 L36 2000
Lasker-Schüler, Else, 1869-1945. Gesammelte Werke in drei Bänden. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996. PT2623 .A76 A1 1996
Levine, Amy-Jill (ed.). "Women like this" : new perspectives on Jewish women in the Greco-Roman world Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1991. BS 680 .W7 W57 1991
Levitt, Laura. Jews and feminism : the ambivalent search for home. New York : Routledge, 1997. BM729 .W6 L49 1997
Neusner, Jacob. How the rabbis liberated women. Neusner, Jacob, Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1998. BM 509 .W7 N48 1998
Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzma, eds. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1998. D 804.47 .W66 1998
Plaskow, Judith. Standing again at Sinai : Judaism from a feminist perspective / Judith Plaskow. New York : Harper & Row, c1990. BM 729 .W6 P55 1990
Rashkow, Ilona N. (Ilona Nemesnyik). The phallacy of Genesis : a feminist-psychoanalytic approach. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/J. Knox, c1993.BS 1235.2 .R38 1993
________. Taboo or not taboo : sexuality and family in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2000. BS680 .F3 R37 2000
Rosen, Norma. Biblical women unbound : counter-tales.Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, c1996 BS 575 .R67 1996
Rothschild, Sylvia and and Sybil Sheridan (eds.).. Taking up the timbrel : the challenge of creating ritual for Jewish women today. London : SCM Press, 2000. BM669 .T355 2000
Rubin, Miri. Gentile tales : the narrative assault on late medieval Jews.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999. BM585.4 .R83 1999Salamon, Hagar. The hyena people : Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999. DS135 .E75 S26 1999
Schroer, Silvia. Wisdom has built her house : studies on the figure of Sophia in the Bible; translated by Linda M. Maloney and William McDonough. Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c2000. BS580 .W58 S37 2000
Senesh, Hannah, Hannah Senesh, her life & diary. Introd. by Abba Eban New York, Schocken Books [1972] (Note: elsewhere her name is variously spelled, e.g. Anna Szenes). CT 1919 .P38 S9413 1972
Siegel, Rachel Josefowitz and Ellen Cole, eds. Celebrating the lives of Jewish women : patterns in a feminist sampler. New York : Harrington Park Press, c1997. DS115.2 .C45 1997
Siegel, Rachel Josefowitz, Ellen Cole, Susan Steinberg-Oren, eds.. Jewish mothers tell their stories : acts of love and courage. New York : Haworth Press, c2000. HQ1172 .J47 2000
Valler, Shulamit. Women and womanhood in the Talmud; translated by Betty Sigler Rozen ; foreword by Judith Hauptman. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1999.
Weems, Renita J. Battered love : marriage, sex, and violence in the Hebrew propets. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c1995. BS 1505.2 .W38 1995
Van Wijk-Bos, Johanna W. H. Ruth & Esther : women in alien lands. Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon Press, c2001. BS1315.52 .V36 2001
Weissler, Chava. Voices of the matriarchs : listening to the prayers of early modern Jewish women. Boston, Mass : Beacon Press, c1998. BM 675 .T4 Z745 1998
