A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)

by Sylvia Barack Fishman

Paperback, 1995

Status

Available

Publication

Brandeis (1995), Edition: 1st, 320 pages

Description

Drawing on interviews with Jewish women from age 18 to 80, across the United States, as well on new demographic data, scholarship, literature and media, A Breath of Life explores contemporary options for Jewish women striving to combine community, family and individual needs. Fishman demonstrates the ways feminism has transformed both their secular and spiritual lives. Ceremonies such as Ba Mitzvah, which accept women into the Jewish fold, are now widely practiced. Girls receive as much Jewish education as boys. The vast majority of adult women pursue both vocational and avocational interests, marry and have children and choose their own religious options. This text charts the course these women take, and explores the challenges and pleasures they find along the way.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0874517060 / 9780874517064
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