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Auction Ends: Jun 9, 2013 06:00 PM EDT

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"Gender and Jewish History" by Deborah Dash Moore, an autographed copy

Item Number
112
Estimated Value
50 USD
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Item Description

The Foundation for Jewish Culture's Jewish Cultural Achievement Award honoree Deborah Dash Moore's Gender and Jewish History is the winner of the 2011 National Jewish Book Award for Anthologies and Collections.
By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past, this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Gender and Jewish History considers the impact of gender on Jewish religious practices and political behavior, educational accomplishments and communal structures, acculturation and choice of occupations. The book stimulates conversations on such topics as Jewish women's creativity and spirituality, violence against women, Jews' reactions to persecution in the Holocaust, and Judaism as lived religion and culture. Honoring Paula Hyman, one of the founders of Jewish gender studies, this volume shows gender to be an eye-opening entry into realms of Jewish history previously untouched by it.

Item Special Note

Signed by the author.