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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792025103321

Autore

El-Or Tamar

Titolo

Next year I will know more : literacy and identity among young Orthodox women in Israel / / Tamar El-Or ; translated by Haim Watzman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-8143-3778-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages)

Collana

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

WatzmanHaim

Disciplina

305.48/892405694

Soggetti

Jewish religious education of women - Israel

Women religious Zionists - Israel - Social conditions

Women religious Zionists - Israel

Orthodox Judaism - Israel

Feminism - Religious aspects - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: I: The Research Site and Methods 23 -- 1: The Demand for Midrashot 25 -- 2: Fieldwork as Homework 53 --II: Next Pesach-Biographies of Students and Their Analysis 87 -- 3: Biographies of Torah Learners 89 -- 4: Six Colors-Many Voices 131 --III: Dialogues on Torah Study and the Constitution of Identity 173 -- 5: Between Joy and Enslavement-Constructing the New Mother 175 -- 6: Between Yavne and Jerusalem-Nationality and Citizenship: An Aggadah Class 207 -- 7: Between Torah and Science-The Last Modernists: A Class in the -- Philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook 233 --IV: Anthropology and Literacy-From Critique to Participation 263 -- Leah's Tallit 263 --Not Obligated but Able 280 -- Literacy on Anthropology and Vice-Versa-Condusion 290 --Epilogue: Is It a Real Revolution? Three Stations 293 -- Notes 301 -- List of References 315 -- Index 323.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the experiences of religious women who participated in a midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, this book explores the spreading practice of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious



Zionist community.