Women in Judaism

Introduction [1] The late orthodox Israeli poet Zelda Schneersohn-Mishkovsky (1914-1984), better known as Zelda, was a descendent of a lineage of illustrious rabbis. (1) Her father, Shelomoh Shalom Schneersohn, belonged to the prominent Schneersohn...

Abstract [1] The paper presents the poet Ella Bat-Tsion as a distinctive voice in contemporary Hebrew poetry. In the 1970s and the 1980s, under her previous name, Gabriella Elisha she published five books of poetry surprising her readers with...

[1] My parents, Hinda and Zysia Pressman, were both born in the late 1890s in a shtetl in Poland an hour's ride from Cracow called Piltz by its Jewish inhabitants and Pilica by its non-Jewish Polish residents. [2] My father left Piltz as a teenager...

Abstract [1] The martyr texts of 2 Maccabees record the deaths of three mothers who sacrificed their lives, along with those of their sons, in order to uphold Jewish law under the persecution of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Two of these anonymous...

Abstract [1] This modern feminist midrash has its roots in the biblical narrative of Jephthah's daughter. It projects into the future an ideal of Jewish women ritualizing in a four day celebration commemorating this biblical account. It envisions...