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Table of Contents

  1. To Our Readers
  2. Deborah Greniman
  3. pp. 3-4
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  1. Note on the Cover Illustration: The Daughter of Pharoah at Dura Europos
  2. Steven Fine
  3. pp. 5-6
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Feminist Interpretations of Talmudic Literature

  1. Feminist Interpretations of Rabbinic Literature: Two Views
  2. Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Tal Ilan
  3. pp. 7-14
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  1. "Daughters of Israel, Weep for Rabbi Ishmael": The Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael on Women
  2. Tal Ilan
  3. pp. 15-34
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  1. Women in Rav Nahman's Court
  2. Shulamit Valler
  3. pp. 35-55
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  1. When the Rabbi Weeps: On Reading Gender in Talmudic Aggadah
  2. Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
  3. pp. 56-83
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  1. The Origins of the Ketubah: Deferred Payment or Cash up Front?
  2. Deborah Greniman
  3. pp. 84-118
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Feminist Interpretations of Halakhic Literature

  1. Women and the Study of Torah: A Responsum by Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin of Jerusalem
  2. David Ellenson, Elissa Ben-Naim
  3. pp. 119-139
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  1. Jewish Women's Naming Rites and the Rights of Jewish Women
  2. Omi Morgenstern Leissner
  3. pp. 140-177
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  1. Social Attitudes Disguised as Halakhah: Zila milta, Ein havrutan na'ah, Kevod hatzibbur
  2. Rochelle L. Millen
  3. pp. 178-196
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Two Zionist Women

  1. Deborah Kallen and the Palestinian Yishuv: The Personal Tragedy of an Educational Pioneer
  2. Sarah Schmidt
  3. pp. 197-232
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  1. From Berlin to Jerusalem: Elfriede Bambus — German Jew, Feminist, Zionist
  2. Claudia Prestel
  3. pp. 233-255
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Resident artist:

  1. A Good Light from a Former Time
  2. Judith Margolis
  3. pp. 256-261
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Reviews

  1. No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction (review)
  2. Amia Lieblich
  3. pp. 262-264
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  1. Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile (review)
  2. Howard Tzvi Adelman
  3. pp. 265-273
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  1. The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (review)
  2. Hanita Brand
  3. pp. 274-279
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  1. What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modesty and Militarism in Israeli Society (review)
  2. Amy Avgar
  3. pp. 280-285
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  1. Contributors to this Issue
  3. pp. 289-290
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