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Lubavitcher Women in America

Author : Bonnie J. Morris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438413661
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Lubavitcher Women in America written by Bonnie J. Morris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lubavitcher Women in America offers a rare look at the world of Hasidic women activists since World War II. The revival of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the second half of the twentieth century has baffled many assimilated American Jews, especially those Jewish feminists hostile to Orthodox interpretations of women's roles. This text gives voice to the lives of those Hasidic women who served the late Lubavitcher Rebbe as educators and outreach activists, and examines their often successful efforts to recruit other Jewish women to the Lubavitcher community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Central to this book is how Lubavitcher women have "talked back" to American feminist thought. Arguing that American feminism cannot liberate Jewish women—that a specifically Jewish spirituality is more appropriate and fulfilling—Lubavitcher women have helped to swell the ranks of their Rebbe's followers by aggressively promoting the appeal of traditional, structured Jewish observance. The book thus offers a unique look at female anti-feminist religious rhetoric, articulately presented by Jewish "fundamentalists."

Chabad-Lubavitch Women: A Bibliography

Author : Dovi Seldowitz
Publisher : The Kabbalah Exhibition
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chabad-Lubavitch Women: A Bibliography written by Dovi Seldowitz and published by The Kabbalah Exhibition. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography sets out a list of all academic studies of Chabad-Lubavich women. This list will assist future research efforts to study the women of this mystical movement.

Music in Lubavitcher Life

Author : Ellen Koskoff
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252093265
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Music in Lubavitcher Life written by Ellen Koskoff and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in Lubavitcher Life illuminates the world of the Lubavitcher Hasidim, a community of ultra-orthodox Jews centered in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Drawing primarily on twenty years of close study of the Lubavitcher community, Ellen Koskoff combines lively anecdotes with historical background and musical analysis to reveal music making among the Lubavitchers as a gateway to their ideas about the nature of human spirituality, human social interaction, and God._x000B_Lubavitcher music centers on the nigunim, a body of paraliturgical, folk, and popular melodies that Lubavitchers regard as a primary form of spiritual communication with the divine. For a song to be included in the repertory of nigunim, it must conform to Hasidic religious and aesthetic principles. If brought in from the outside, it must be purified: stripped of its coarse outer shell (usually the text) and recomposed in accordance with coded musical structures (including certain melody types, ornamentation, and formal organization). Performance of nigunim adheres, among other things, to a process associated with the spirituality of the great Hasidic leaders of the past._x000B_Along with vivid descriptions of musical performance in religious contexts and private gatherings, Koskoff details the musical sounds and structures that symbolize Lubavitcher social relations. In particular, she examines the differences between Lubavitcher women's and men's music making and the underlying beliefs and assumptions that give rise to gendered musical behaviors, such as the dictum that prohibits men from hearing a woman sing._x000B_An insightful portrait of a distinctive community's musical and religious life, Music in Lubavitcher Life is also a candid view of ethnographic research and of fieldwork's illusory objectivity._x000B__x000B_

Women and American Judaism

Author : Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651246
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Women and American Judaism written by Pamela Susan Nadell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.

The Modern Jewish Woman

Author : Lubavitch Educational Foundation for Jewish Marriage Enrichment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Jewish Woman written by Lubavitch Educational Foundation for Jewish Marriage Enrichment and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Set

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253346851
Total Pages : 1443 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Set written by Rosemary Skinner Keller and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 1443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers

Author : Stephanie Wellen Levine
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814751970
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers written by Stephanie Wellen Levine and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-08-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects portraits of Hasidic young women and how they manage conflicts between their regimented society and mainstream American life.

The Rebbe's Army

Author : Sue Fishkoff
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307566145
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Rebbe's Army written by Sue Fishkoff and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first behind-the-scenes look at this small Brooklyn-based group of Hasidim and the extraordinary lengths to which they take their mission of outreach. They seem to be everywhere—in big cities, small towns, and suburbs throughout the United States, and in sixty-one countries around the world. They light giant Chanukah menorahs in public squares, run “Chabad houses” on college campuses from Berkeley to Cambridge, give weekly bible classes in the Capitol basement in Washington, D.C., run a nonsectarian drug treatment center in Los Angeles, sponsor the world’s biggest Passover Seder in Nepal, establish synagogues, Hebrew schools, and day-care centers in places that are often indifferent and occasionally hostile to their outreach efforts. They have built a billion-dollar international empire, with their own news service, publishing house, and hundreds of Websites. Who are these people? How successful are they in making Jews more observant? What influence does their late Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (who some thought was the Messiah), continue to have on his followers? Fishkoff spent a year interviewing Lubavitch emissaries from Anchorage to Miami and has written an engaging and fair-minded account of a Hasidic group whose motives and methodology continue to be the subject of speculation and controversy.

Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures

Author : Philip L. Kilbride
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817304711
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures written by Philip L. Kilbride and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1990-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on African-Americans, Welsh-Americans, Irish-Americans, Ukrainian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Greek-Americans, Puerto Rican-Americans, and Cambodian-Americans.

Mitzvah Girls

Author : Ayala Fader
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830990
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Mitzvah Girls written by Ayala Fader and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic Judaism, Fader looks beyond the synagogue to everyday talk in the context of homes, classrooms, and city streets. Hasidic women complicate stereotypes of nonliberal religious women by collapsing distinctions between the religious and the secular. In this innovative book, Fader demonstrates that contemporary Hasidic femininity requires women and girls to engage with the secular world around them, protecting Hasidic men and boys who study the Torah. Even as Hasidic religious observance has become more stringent, Hasidic girls have unexpectedly become more fluent in secular modernity. They are fluent Yiddish speakers but switch to English as they grow older; they are increasingly modest but also fashionable; they read fiction and play games like those of mainstream American children but theirs have Orthodox Jewish messages; and they attend private Hasidic schools that freely adapt from North American public and parochial models. Investigating how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern, Mitzvah Girls offers exciting new insights into cultural production and change in nonliberal religious communities.

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery

Author : Karla GOLDMAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037774
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Synagogue Gallery written by Karla GOLDMAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant communities strove for middle-class respectability for themselves and their religion, even while fearing a loss of traditions and identity. For acculturating Jews some practices, like the ritual bath, quickly disappeared. Women's traditional segregation from the service in screened women's galleries was gradually replaced by family pews and mixed choirs. By the end of the century, with the rising tide of Jewish immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe, the spread of women's social and religious activism within a network of organizations brought collective strength to the nation's established Jewish community. Throughout these changing times, though, Goldman notes persistent ambiguous feelings about the appropriate place of women in Judaism, even among reformers. This account of the evolving religious identities of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century; it makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in America.

Tradition in a Rootless World

Author : Lynn Davidman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520075455
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Tradition in a Rootless World written by Lynn Davidman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Davidman's] rich ethnographic observations and lucid prose illuminate two of the more important aspects of modern religion generally: the changing role of women and the resurgence of traditional faith."—Robert Wuthnow, author of Meaning and Moral Order

The Journey Home

Author : Joyce Antler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684834448
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Journey Home written by Joyce Antler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anarchists and Zionists, "sob sister" writers and Supreme Court justices, rabbis and reformers, personalities as diverse as Emma Goldman, Sophie Tucker and Gertrude Stein have left their indelible mark on the American century.

Hush

Author : Eishes Chayil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802722709
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Hush written by Eishes Chayil and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written thousands of years before down to the last detail-and abuse has never been a part of it. But when thirteen-year-old Gittel learns of the abuse her best friend has suffered at the hands of her own family member, the adults in her community try to persuade Gittel, and themselves, that nothing happened. Forced to remain silent, Gittel begins to question everything she was raised to believe. A richly detailed and nuanced book, one of both humor and depth, understanding and horror, this story explains a complex world that remains an echo of its past, and illuminates the conflict between yesterday's traditions and today's reality.

New World Hasidim

Author : Janet S. Belcove-Shalin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496201
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book New World Hasidim written by Janet S. Belcove-Shalin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hasidim has long been the subject of historical, philosophical, and literary accounts, but it is only in recent years that it has begun to attract the close attention of social scientists. This book highlights contemporary ethnographic perspectives that convey the richness and complexity of Hasidic life. Political engagement, gender roles, ritual life, proselytizing activities, and community revitalization are just some of the topics covered in this study that casts light on one of the more enigmatic religious communities of contemporary America.

Voices for Change

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Voices for Change written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women Remaking American Judaism

Author : Riv-Ellen Prell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814335683
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Women Remaking American Judaism written by Riv-Ellen Prell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women’s issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.