Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42666
Elaine Margolin
Book Review
书评
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42668
Elaine Margolin
Book Review
书评
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42674
Tiffany Sidders
Book Review
书评
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42681
David J. Zucker
Women rabbis have been depicted in fiction for close to fifty years. In the second decade and then in the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century over a dozen fictional women rabbis appear as central or important characters in novels, short stories, and on the silver screen. Most of them make their first appearance. This article takes note of the authors of these works, and then looks at the characters themselves, contrasting their “fictional” experiences with the published experiences of “real-life” women rabbis. It discusses these fictional women rabbis in terms of their theology/sense of tradition; religious/educational backgrounds; gender identification; and where that information is dealt with in the storyline, how these women address some of the challenges facing women rabbis such as dressed for success; pay inequity; and matters of sexual harassment. This is followed by a section on how women regard success in the rabbinate. A caveat: the real-lived experiences of women rabbis, their definitions of success and their joys/concerns/issues/disquiets are not necessarily the subjects that concern writers of fiction that feature women rabbis as characters.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42680
Mari Réthelyi
This article examines Anna Lesznai’s radical imagining of sex and its use for transcendental purposes that heavily rely on Jewish mystical ideas intertwined with Otto Weininger's theory of gender binarism. In her gender theory—part of feminist discourse at the turn of the twentieth century—Lesznai describes female love, using religious language and ideas from Jewish mysticism, especially those resembling Hassidic concepts, and ultimately compares sexual union to yihud- unio mystica with God. Working within the patriarchal understanding of the biological definition of gender and of the concept of "female difference," Lesznai’s feminism rooted in the belief that certain personality traits and skills are inherently gendered, but she reverses the hierarchy by placing women in the position of power, thus turning Jewish mysticism and Weininger’s gender philosophy on its head.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42674
Tiffany Sidders
Book Review
书评
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.33137/wij.v19i2.42677
David J. Zucker
Book Review
书评
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