Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books - Softcover

Blumberg, Ilana M.

 
9780803224490: Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803224494 ISBN 13: 9780803224490
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Houses of Study is an eloquent memoir of a Jewish woman’s life and her efforts to reconcile the traditions of her faith with her belief in women’s equality and the pull of modern American living. Ilana M. Blumberg traces her path from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic texts alongside Anglo-American novels and biographies to a womanhood where the two literatures suddenly represent mutually exclusive possibilities for life. Set in “houses of study,” from a Jewish grammar school and high school to a Jerusalem yeshiva for women to a secular American university, her intimate and poignant memoir asks what happens when the traditional Jewish ideal of learning asserts itself in a woman directed by that same tradition toward a life of modesty, early marriage, and motherhood.

This Bison Books edition is updated with discussion questions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ilana M. Blumberg is an assistant professor of humanities, culture, and writing at James Madison College, Michigan State University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803224494
ISBN 13 
9780803224490
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
181
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