The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

Index

Index 299 Abelson, Joan Lipnick, 183 Abortion, 194 Ackerman, Paula, 160–64, 184 Across the Threshold (Kaplan and Levi), 152 Adat Ari-El (North Hollywood, Calif.), 261n. 77 Adler, Racie, 238n. 42 Agnon, S. Y., 107 Agudat Israel World Organization, 78 Agunah issue, 56, 70 Agus, Arlene, 192 Ahavat Shalom (Lakewood, N.J.), 262n. 82 Ahavath Chesed (New York, N.Y.), 53 Allender, Julie, 179–80 American Jewess, 20, 21 American Jewish Congress, 199 American Jewish Year Book, 47 American Judaism (Glazer), 5 American Judaism (Sarna), 218 American Rabbinate, The (1985), 6 American Woman, The (Chafe), 168 Amidah, 159–60 Ansche Chesed (New York, N.Y.), 238n. 42, 245n. 116 Anshe Emeth (Chicago, Ill.), 245n. 4 Anxiety. See Stress and anxiety Appearance and dress, 131, 136, 141, 145, 164 Aronson, Bertha, 61, 86, 147, 179, 246n. 16 Around the Year in Jewish Ceremonial (Rubenovitz), 96 Art and aesthetic sensibility, 31, 96–98, 153, 155 Art museums: at Hebrew Union Hebrew College, 17, 31; at Jewish Theological Seminary, 247n. 30; at Temple Mishkan Tefila (Boston, Mass.), 97–98 Arzt, Esther, 143–44 Asekoff, Cecile, 180 Asenath (wife of Jacob ben Abraham), 13 Ashkenazic Jews, 8–9, 12–13, 97 Aspasia (wife of Pericles, 5th c. BCE), 3 Authors, 68–74; feminist, 193–96, 204, 207; in 1970s and 1980s, 176–84; in postwar years, 152–57; recent, 210, 213. See also individual authors Autonomy of women, 21, 114, 168–72, 176–84 Avodat haShulkhan (Goldsteins), 46 Awakened (Abram), 128 Bader, Golda, 129 Ball, Lucille, 140 Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 16 Baltimore Hevras Zion, 47 Baron, Deborah, 107, 251n. 74 Barras, Sylvia, 135–37, 151 Bartlett, Ella, 21 Behold My Messengers! (Silverman), 72 Behrmann, Joan, 176–77 Ben Yehuda, Eliezer, 114 Benderly, Samson and Jennie, 101–3, 104 Bene Israel Congregation (Cincinnati, Ohio), 241n. 73 Bengis, Esther, 61–62 Bentwich family, 35, 84 Berkowitz, Flora and Henry, 18, 80–81 Berkson, Isaac, 108 Berlin, Rayna Batya, 9 Beruriah (wife of Rabbi Meir, 2nd c. CE), 12, 225–26n. 31 Beth Ahabah (Richmond, Va.), 242n. 76 Beth El Congregation (New York, N.Y.), 227n. 49 Beth El Congregation (Pensacola, Fla.), 160 Beth El Synagogue (Minneapolis, Minn.), 61, 265n. 120, 270n. 54 Beth El Synagogue (Omaha, Neb.), 258n. 29 Beth El Synagogue (Waterbury, Conn.), 268n. 9 Beth El Temple (West Hartford, Conn.), 267n. 144 Beth Emet The Free Synagogue (Evanston, Ill.), 249n. 52 Beth Jacob (Pennsauken, N.J.), 261n. 77, 262n. 78 Beth Tfiloh Congregation (Baltimore, Md.), 82 Bettelheim, Albert, 53 Beyond the Gallery (Goldman), 6 Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 108 Bible Legend series (Freehof), 152 Black Bread (Greenberg), 195 Blank, Amy, 144 Blessings and invocations, 135, 151, 155, 213 Bloom, Jack, 173 Bluwstein, Rahel, 251n. 74 B’nai Abraham (Easton, Pa.), 257n. 16 B’nai Abraham Zion (Chicago, Ill.), 83 Bnai Amoona (St. Louis, Mo.), 261n. 77 B’nai B’rith Organization, 227n. 49 B’nai Israel Congregation (Elizabeth, N.J.), 68 Bostoner Rebbetzin Remembers, The (Horowitz), 213 Brekus, Catherine, 14 Brickner, Balfour, 105, 126 Brickner, Rebecca Aaronson, 92, 101–13, 229n. 5, 232n. 35 Brilliant, Nathan, 106 Brookville C. C. Series: Getting Started, 213 Brush, Louis, 38 Bureau of Jewish Education (New York State), 101, 103 “Buzz group” technique, 154 Calisch, Gussie Woolner, 242n. 76 Calling, sense of religious, 4–5, 14, 23, 53–54, 61 Careers, women’s: conflicting with rabbis’, 129–30, 133, 135; in late 1800s, 19; in 1920s, 83–84, 87; in 1940s and 1950s, 138–40; in 1960s and 1970s, 167–72, 175–76, 216–17; in 1980s, 179–81; in 1990s, 211–13; sacrifice of, 59–62, 67–68, 85–86. See also Two-person career Carlebach, Shlomo, 200 Central Conference of American Rabbis, 18, 76, 110, 112, 143, 172–74, 186 Central European Jews, 57, 78 Charitable work: of Ashkenazic rabbis’ wives, 8; Brickner’s, 105–6; in early 1900s, 26–28, 30, 37; in late 1800s, 14, 20; of National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, 74–76; Pool’s, 119; for refugees, 77–79, 119; widows and, 182 “Chentshiner Rebbetzin” (Sarah Horowitz-Sternfeld), 8 Childless rabbis’ wives, 62, 68, 93–94, 125 Children’s books, 72–74, 195, 261n. 69 Choosing Your Way to Happiness (Lichtenstein ), 123 Choral societies, 21, 38, 76 Christian denominations: early clergy wives’ titles, 224n. 17; and Jewish experience compared, 57, 91, 128–30, 138, 165–66, 220, 259n. 50; ordination of women, 169; Protestant ministers’ wives, 13–16, 62–63; stress and, 15–16, 184–85; Women’s...