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Talking
Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture
Joyce Antler (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997
The
Struggle for Equality: Urban Women Workers in Pre-State Israeli Society
Deborah Bernstein / Hardcover / Published 1987
Pioneers
and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel
Deborah S. Bernstein (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1992
Women
of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site
by Phyllis Chesler (Editor), Rivka Haut (Editor)
"This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots
and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel,
the United States, and other parts of the world--known as the Women of
the Wall--to win the right to pray out loud together as a group, according
to Jewish law; wear ritual objects; and read from Torah scrolls at the
Western Wall."
To
Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era
Mary Lowenthal Felstiner / Paperback / 1997
Memories
of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian
Women in New York, 1870-1924
Kathie Friedman-Kasaba / Paperback / Published 1996
History, theory, and immigrant women's own words reveal women's
participation in the mass migrations from eastern and southern Europe
to the U.S. at the turn of the century.
The
Temple Bombing
Melissa Fay Greene, Melissa Fay Green / Hardcover / Published 1996 --
paperback
edition
Jewish
Women in Greco-Roman Palestine
Tal Ilan / Paperback / Published 1996
Medicine
Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
Aurora Levins Morales / Paperback / 1998
The author writes lucidly about the complexities of social identity.
Her lyrical meditations on ecology, children's liberation, sexuality,
and history show how political transformation and personal healing are
inextricably bound.
Women
Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Oridnation, 1889-1985
Pamela Susan Nadell
"Nadell shows how women who wanted to be rabbis raised
the same arguments again and again, often unaware of those who preceded
them. Only when enough women joined forces to sustain and strengthen one
another did they succeed in their cause."
Spinning
Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History
Miriam B. Peskowitz / Paperback / Published 1997
Gone
to Another Meeting : The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993
Faith Rogow, Joan Bronk (Designer) / Paperback / 1993
"And
Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since
1855
Linda Mack Schloff
Bridge
Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
Vera Schwarcz / Hardcover / 1998
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