{"title":"Rothman-Zecher, Moriel. Before All the World: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022.","authors":"Elaine Margolin","doi":"10.33137/wij.v18i2.39684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/wij.v18i2.39684","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Rothman-Zecher, Moriel. Before All the World: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022.","PeriodicalId":234272,"journal":{"name":"Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121186663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.33137/wij.v18i2.39681
Tova Gamliel
The Performative text is a product of a dialogue between an anthropologist and traditional Yemenite-Jewish women about gender power relations in their community. It was composed against the background of criticism of politics of culture, which dismisses the pretension of representation and the hierarchical and patronizing implications of conventional academic writing. At its focus is the prototypical persona of Badra the wailer, who is mediated by paraphrase, narrativity, and polyphonic and sometimes virtuosic vocality—a technique that the subjects themselves use. The performative text reveals deep strata of meaning and diverse aspects of the unique “feminist” thesis proposed for examination and criticism.
{"title":"Inferiority with a Wink of the Eye: Jewish-Yemenite Women's “Feminist” Thesis","authors":"Tova Gamliel","doi":"10.33137/wij.v18i2.39681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/wij.v18i2.39681","url":null,"abstract":"The Performative text is a product of a dialogue between an anthropologist and traditional Yemenite-Jewish women about gender power relations in their community. It was composed against the background of criticism of politics of culture, which dismisses the pretension of representation and the hierarchical and patronizing implications of conventional academic writing. At its focus is the prototypical persona of Badra the wailer, who is mediated by paraphrase, narrativity, and polyphonic and sometimes virtuosic vocality—a technique that the subjects themselves use. The performative text reveals deep strata of meaning and diverse aspects of the unique “feminist” thesis proposed for examination and criticism.","PeriodicalId":234272,"journal":{"name":"Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115131698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.33137/wij.v18i1.38908
Shai Rudin
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, only 23 Queer literary works have been published for children and adolescence in Hebrew. This paper examines the characteristics of these works in light of the ambivalent and controversial status of the LGBTQ+ Community in Israel. The findings show that the few works that have been published and that present same-sex families or LGBTQ+ characters, and the manner in which Queer themes are presented in those texts, are in line with how these issues are perceived and addressed by Israeli society. Moreover, this article divides the Queer Israeli literature for children and youth into three categories: implied Queer literature that hides the Queer existence through the allegoric genre; Queerphobic literature that seemingly presents the Queer family but in actual fact promotes homophobic stereotypes; and Queer literature that places the LGBTQ+ character or family in the center of the story without passing judgement or criticism.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.33137/wij.v18i1.38910
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen
Women’s voices had no place in the Third Reich, and the Christian churches agreed: a woman’s place was in the kitchen. After the war, women’s voices frankly discussed the churches’ shame. Some Christians had colluded, others stood silently by, and some of those who resisted the persecution of Jewish converts did not fully understand the injustice and cruelty of socially normalised anti-Semitism. Theologically trained female vicars who had never been permitted to serve the church, stepped into pastoral duties when men were imprisoned, executed, or sent to the front. They took risks to bring spiritual hope to villagers who were fearful, confused, and appalled, by war. Victoria Barnett worked as a journalist in Germany in the 1970s and collected the accounts of Confessing Church members who resisted Hitler, to help expose the moral failures of the holocaust for the evangelical church. When Barnett returned to the US, she began her life’s work in the reconciliation of Christians and Jews. Her books analyse the silence and complicity of ordinary people during the holocaust. They are not easy reading, but her work is important in an age where people still face discrimination, repression and persecution, and institutional silence.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.33137/wij.v18i1.38907
Mari Réthelyi
Anna Lesznai (1895-1966), a Hungarian artist and writer of Jewish descent, was a well-known figure of the Hungarian avant-garde. Lesznai’s view of womanhood that is contained in the unstructured writings of her diary, addresses one of the major questions of the time: What makes women feminine and how do women construct their female identity? Her view of gender as founded in biological sex reflects her era when women’s birthing capability was the focal point of their role and identity. Lesznai’s view of the female self is constructed through two kinds of birthing—biological and creative. She asserts that birthing is an action in which women actively and voluntarily participate, giving agency to women and empowering them more than men who are barren. Lesznai redefined the role of women as a birth-giver, rather than a mother.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.33137/wij.v18i1.38895
Batya Weinbaum
Review of Fershtman, Shoshana. The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma in the Wellsprings of Renewal. Abingdon, Oxon, and New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
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{"title":"Tokarczuk, Olga. The Books of Jacob: A Novel. Translated by Jennifer Croft. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2022","authors":"Elaine Margolin","doi":"10.33137/wij.v18i1.38898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/wij.v18i1.38898","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Tokarczuk, Olga. The Books of Jacob: A Novel. Translated by Jennifer Croft. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2022","PeriodicalId":234272,"journal":{"name":"Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133083361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.33137/wij.v18i1.38909
D. Zucker
Although women have been continuously ordained as rabbis since 1972, fictional depictions of these women rabbis did not appear for several years. Now, some five decades on, there are over four dozen works of fiction that mention women rabbis. As in real life these rabbis lead congregations and work in the wider community. This article surveys the fictional descriptions of women rabbis. Those rabbis are compared and contrasted with some data concerning real-life women rabbis. There are six sections: “The development of women rabbis as fictional characters;” “An overview of the presence and professional choices of fictional women rabbis”; “Balance, Intimacy, and Empowerment”; “Encountering God”; “Coping with double standards and harassment”; and “Rabbinic spouses/partners.”
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