Select Books
Eve's journey : feminine images in Hebraic literary tradition by Publication Date: 1986
The journey home : Jewish women and the American century by Publication Date: 1997
Masculinity and the making of American Judaism by Publication Date: 2017
Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora by
This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history"--the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlling much of southeastern Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. Thousands of Jewish families that had been expelled from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century created communities in these far-flung locations. Later emigrants from Iberia, who converted to Christianity at the time of the expulsion or before, created communities in Western European cities such as Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Livorno. Sephardi communities were very different from those of Ashkenazi Jews in the same period. The authors of these essays use the lens of domestic life to illuminate the diversity of the post-Inquisition Sephardi Jewish experience, enabling readers to enter into little-known and little-studied Jewish historical episodes. Contributors include: Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld, Hannah Davidson, Cristina Galasso, David Graizbord, Ruth Lamdan, and Julia Lieberman
ISBN: 9781584659167Publication Date: 2010-12-14
Women in the Holocaust : a feminist history by Publication Date: 2017
Databases: Check "More Key Resources" for Additional Databases
- GenderWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowFull articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's.
- Index to Jewish Periodicals WITH Jewish Studies Source (EbscoHOST) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts to English-language articles and book reviews on Jewish history, activity and thought in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, combined with full text periodicals in Jewish Studies Source.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text newspapers, magazines and journals of American ethnic, minority and indigenous communities. Offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Select E-Journals
- Nashim : a journal of Jewish women's studies & gender issuesPublication Date: 1998-
- Jewish Women MagazinePublication Date: 2011-2019
Select Articles
- Gender, sexuality and queer in modern Jewish studies byPublication Date: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2019-04-03, Vol.18 (2), p.139-141
- Passing as a man: Narratives of Jewish gender performance byPublication Date: Narrative, 10,1 (2002) 91-103
- Questions of belonging: Same-sex parenthood and Judaism in transformation : Sexuality and religion byPublication Date: Sexualities, 2014, Vol.17 (5-6), p.529-545
- Women's liberation and Jewish feminism after 1968: multiple pathways to gender equality byPublication Date: American Jewish History, 102,1 (2018) 36-58
- The Women of the Wall: A metaphor for national and religious identity byPublication Date: Israel Studies Review, 30,2 (2015) 50-70
Documentaries
- Full CircleFull Circle is the first and only film to have ever been made on the most revolutionary social experiment of the century - the attempt to create sexual equality between women and men on the Israeli kibbutz.
- Sex and the Wailing WallA band of brave Jewish women are fighting back for the right to raise their voices at the Wailing Wall.
- Trembling before G-d Le-fanekha bi-reʻadahA documentary built around personal stories of gay and lesbian Hasidic and Orthodox Jews.