Jewish Women's Torah Study: Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780415858472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 284 str.

Ilan Fuchs

Opis

This book addresses the question of women's study of the Torah, and integration in the halachic-religious system.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Torah Studies by Women: The Halachic Infrastructure 2 Fighting Assimilation: Women's Education in Eastern European Orthodoxy 3 Women’s Education and the Learners’ Society 4 TheTorah Study for Women in the New World: The American Experience 5 "Women Shall Encircle Man": Torah Study for Women in the Teachings of R Menahem Mendel Schneerson 6 Satmar and Women's Education: Education as a Root Cause of Promiscuity 7 Moderate Orthodoxy and Women’s Torah Study

O autorze

Ilan Fuchs is a research associate in the Hadassah Brandeis Institute Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and Law. His research interests include; Jewish law, history of Jewish Orthodoxy, gender and religion. His most recent articles include; "Women’s Testimony in Jewish Law," (forthcoming, Hebrew Union College Annual) and "The Yeshiva as a political Institution," (forthcoming, Modern Judaism).