LEADER 04065nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910971494203321 005 20251117095347.0 010 $a0-8143-3568-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000099704 035 $a(EBL)3416472 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000659620 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11456374 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659620 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699528 035 $a(PQKB)10334751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416472 035 $a(OCoLC)794443085 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19727 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416472 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561888 035 $a(OCoLC)923510907 035 $a(BIP)41420422 035 $a(BIP)14003394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000099704 100 $a20070220d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen remaking American Judaism /$fedited by Riv-Ellen Prell ; with a foreword by David Weinberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8143-3280-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Reenvisioning Judaism -- pt. 2. Redefining Judaism -- pt. 3. Reframing Judaism. 330 $aThe rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women's issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women's studies. 606 $aJewish women$xReligious life$zUnited States 606 $aWomen in Judaism$zUnited States 606 $aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 606 $aJudaism$zUnited States 615 0$aJewish women$xReligious life 615 0$aWomen in Judaism 615 0$aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 615 0$aJudaism 676 $a296.082/0973 701 $aPrell$b Riv-Ellen$f1947-$0912535 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971494203321 996 $aWomen remaking American Judaism$94475979 997 $aUNINA