Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture

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Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel HBI SERIES ON JEWISH WOMEN Shulamit Reinharz, General Editor Joyce Antler, Associate Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor The HBI Series on Jewish Women, created by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, publishes a wide range of books by and about Jewish women in diverse contexts and time periods. Of interest to scholars and the educated public, the HBI Series on Jewish Women fills major gaps in Jewish Studies and in Women and Gender Studies as well as their intersection. For the complete list of books that are available in this series, please see www.upne.com and www.upne.com/series/BSJW.html. Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem, editors, Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation Anne Lapidus Lerner, Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Margalit Shilo, Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840–1914 Marcia Falk, translator, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible Sylvia Barack Fishman, Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe Iris Parush, Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, editors, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism Farideh Goldin, Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman Elizabeth Wyner Mark, editor, The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite Rochelle L. Millen, Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice JEWISH WOMEN IN PRE-STATE ISRAEL Life History, Politics, and Culture Edited by Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem Brandeis University Press Waltham, Massachusetts Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 www.upne.com© 2008 by Brandeis University Press Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors and publishers who would like to obtain permission for any of the material in the work, should contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ’Ivriyot ha-hadashot. English. Jewish women in pre-state Israel : life history, politics, and culture / edited by Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (HBI series on Jewish women) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978–1–58465–702–6 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978–1–58465–703–3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Jewish women—Palestine—History—Congresses. 2. Jewish women—Israel—History —Congresses. 3. Feminism—Palestine—History—Congresses. 4. Feminism—Israel —History—Congresses. I. Kark, Ruth. II. Shilo, Margalit. III. Hasan-Rokem, Galit. IV. Title. hq1728.5.i9513 2008 305.48⬘892400904—dc22 2008007648 ...