Project MUSE®: Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USNo. 3 (2000) through current issueLatest Articles: Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender IssuesTWOProject MUSE®Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues1565-52880793-8934Latest articles in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982284
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In a 6-to-3 ruling on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States rescinded the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. This decision reversed almost fifty years of legal precedent set by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which had defended legal abortion primarily through the right to privacy implied in the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Suddenly, individual states rather than the federal government had the authority to determine the right of any individual to end a pregnancy. Millions of American women now find themselves living in states where they do not have access to abortion care.This legal upheaval has been particularly disconcerting for Jews living in the United States, home to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallIntroduction2026-02-13text/htmlen-USIntroduction2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®135852026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13"To Be Fertile and Increase": The Stakes of Reproduction in Rabbinic Thought
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982285
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The connection between procreation and blessing is communicated four times in the Hebrew Bible—once at the time of creation (Gen. 1:28), twice to Noah (Gen. 9:1 and 9:7), and once to Jacob (Gen. 35:11). God pronounces "Be fertile and increase" as a blessing to humankind, granting them the ability to populate the earth. Beginning in the tannaitic period, the rabbis read these verses as a divine commandment.1 Mishnah Yevamot 6:6 states:.לא יבטל אדם מפריה ורביה, אלא אם כן יש לו בנים. בית שמאי אומרים, שני זכרים.ובית הלל אומרים, זכר ונקבה, שנאמר, [בראשית א] זכר ונקבה בראם[…]האיש מצוה על פריה ורביה, אבל לא האשה. רבי יוחנן בן ברוקא אומר, על שניהם הואאומר [בראשית א], ויברך אתם אלהים ויאמר להם אלהים פרו ורבוA man may not
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmall"To Be Fertile and Increase": The Stakes of Reproduction in Rabbinic Thought2026-02-13text/htmlen-US"To Be Fertile and Increase": The Stakes of Reproduction in Rabbinic Thought2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1308542026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Antisemitism, Blood Libels and Holocaust Denial: Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982286
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There is no question in Canada that the antichoice movement was antisemitic and organized around it. They organized around the fact that this is a Jewish doctor, and he's trying to kill Christian babies.1The struggle for abortion rights in Canada, in important ways, was catalyzed by and organized around the actions of Dr. Henry Morgentaler (1923–2013). From his testimony in the 1960s before a Parliamentary committee calling for the abolition of laws prohibiting abortion, to his daring the provinces throughout the 1970s and 1980s to prosecute him for providing abortions in violation of the law, the work of this provocative doctor set the stage for Canada's laws criminalizing abortion to be overturned. The 1988
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallAntisemitism, Blood Libels and Holocaust Denial: Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada2026-02-13text/htmlen-USAntisemitism, Blood Libels and Holocaust Denial: Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1440382026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Medical Violence in Israeli Literature: The Mining Women Genre
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982287
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While violence is inevitable in the medical profession, beginning with the dissection of bodies in the early years of medical education, it is rarely addressed as such. Since the purpose of medicine is to help salve and save human lives, the violence that occurs in these processes is often repressed and silenced.1 Acceptable medical violence includes various treatments that inflict pain and suffering on patients, as well as the use of scientific language and military metaphors to describe the invasion of a disease into the human body. In these instances, the patient often experiences harmful treatment by physicians, who, more often than not, unwittingly set aside the patient's humanity.2Numerous behaviors by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallMedical Violence in Israeli Literature: The Mining Women Genre2026-02-13text/htmlen-USMedical Violence in Israeli Literature: The Mining Women Genre2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1089462026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13The Double Legal Consciousness of Religious Jewish Surrogates
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982288
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Surrogacy, a practice in which a woman contractually agrees to try to carry a baby to term1 for a single person or couple who will raise the child, has long been a focus of controversy. The scholarship on surrogacy in anthropology, sociology, ethics, law, religion and psychology is too vast to summarize here. However, the extensive literature on the subject reveals a gap between the etic perspective of the early theoretical scholarship, which largely emphasized concerns about the economic exploitation of women and the commodification of bodies and babies,2 and the emic approach largely adopted by contemporary ethnographic research, which has explored the personal and collective narratives of surrogates and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallThe Double Legal Consciousness of Religious Jewish Surrogates2026-02-13text/htmlen-USThe Double Legal Consciousness of Religious Jewish Surrogates2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1121062026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Nice Jewish Girls? Jewishness, Femaleness, and Reproductive Justice in American Film Between Roe and Dobbs
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982289
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Film provides a blueprint for how "nice Jewish girls" approach and understand abortion, both as helpers/support systems for other women in need, and as women exercising their own right to choose. In this article, I will explore four case studies of films from the past fifty years that revolve around conversations related to abortion, choice, female reproductive rights and bodily autonomy: Up the Sandbox (Irvin Kershner, 1972), Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978), Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987), and Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre, 2014). In doing so, I will discuss the relationship between popular culture and reproductive justice in the period from Roe v. Wade (1973), which anchored abortion as a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallNice Jewish Girls? Jewishness, Femaleness, and Reproductive Justice in American Film Between Roe and Dobbs2026-02-13text/htmlen-USNice Jewish Girls? Jewishness, Femaleness, and Reproductive Justice in American Film Between Roe and Dobbs2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®920492026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13#ShoutYourAbortion from the Bimah: U.S. Abortion Masterplots and Jewish Counternarratives from Rabbis for Repro
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982290
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In 2020, the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), a national advocacy group representing Jewish women in the United States, launched the Rabbis for Repro campaign. Rabbis for Repro provides Jewish clergy with educational resources to advocate for reproductive health, rights and justice in the U.S. Over 1,500 rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators have signed the pledge to be a Rabbi for Repro, which states: "I pledge to use my voice […] to teach, write, and speak about reproductive rights and Judaism in the United States and in the Jewish community."1 Those who signed the pledge receive educational resources about abortion, source sheets with Jewish texts related to abortion, and support for writing and placing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmall#ShoutYourAbortion from the Bimah: U.S. Abortion Masterplots and Jewish Counternarratives from Rabbis for Repro2026-02-13text/htmlen-US#ShoutYourAbortion from the Bimah: U.S. Abortion Masterplots and Jewish Counternarratives from Rabbis for Repro2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1318352026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Rethinking Biblical Women: Three Poems
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982291
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We were both looking for a writing project in late 2018 and decided to collaborate on poems about the Bible. We began at the beginning: Creation. Since we live in different countries, our best option was email. Each of us composed several lines and sent it to the other, who in turn added her own lines. We had no idea if it would work. In 2022, our book, Seduction: Out of Eden was published.Our current project is a collection about biblical women, where we want to add our voices to the midrashic tradition. Working in a new way, we meet on Zoom each week. We draft and sculpt lines together. We complement and surprise one another. We put aside our egos in service of the poetry. It's still a mystery how it works so
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallRethinking Biblical Women: Three Poems2026-02-13text/htmlen-USRethinking Biblical Women: Three Poems2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®91682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Retro Aesthetics, Jewish Humor, Transmedia Promotion and Popular Misogyny in Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982292
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Amy Sherman-Palladino's dramatic comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video, 2017–2023) focuses on a fictional Jewish American housewife and mother, Miriam (Midge) Maisel (played by actress Rachel Brosnahan), first seen caring for her husband and raising her children on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in close proximity to her own parents. When Midge's husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), cheats on her, her life upends, and she discovers a natural talent for standup comedy. The series captures the many challenges Midge faces throughout her entertainment career with the help of her manager and unlikely friend Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein).The show is set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a moment in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallRetro Aesthetics, Jewish Humor, Transmedia Promotion and Popular Misogyny in Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USRetro Aesthetics, Jewish Humor, Transmedia Promotion and Popular Misogyny in Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1214522026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Four Poems
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982293
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Published in Leonor Scliar-Cabral, O sol caía no Guaíba (The sun falls on Guaiba; Porto Alegre: Bestário, 2006), p. 20.Published in Leonor Scliar-Cabral, O sol caía no Guaíba (The sun falls on Guaiba; Porto Alegre: Bestário, 2006), p. 52.Published in Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Memórias de Sefarad (Memories of the Sefardim; Florianópolis: Livros do Athanor, 1994), p. 99.Published in Leonor Scliar-Cabral, O sol caía no Guaíba (The sun falls on Guaiba; Porto Alegre: Bestário, 2006), p.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallFour Poems2026-02-13text/htmlen-USFour Poems2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®144332026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Birthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity under the British Mandate by Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982294
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"Israel is a crazy country when it comes to childbirth." This 2019 newspaper headline appears in one of the opening paragraphs of Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman's Birthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity under the British Mandate (p. 12).1 In other words, although this book focuses on the Jewish community in Palestine in the period of the British Mandate (henceforth: the Yishuv), the author insists on beginning with today and then looking back, partly in an articulate attempt to understand how we got here.As of 2019, explains Rosenberg-Friedman, the fertility rate in Israel stood at 3.1 children per woman—one more than the average of the OECD countries and higher even than most developing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallBirthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity under the British Mandate by Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USBirthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity under the British Mandate by Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®696472026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination by Orian Zakai (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982295
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Orian Zakai's Fictions of Gender challenges the way Hebrew and Israeli women's writing has been studied over the past thirty years. Many scholarly projects aimed at incorporating early twentieth-century Hebrew women's literature into the canon have focused on its subversive nature, as literature that, while seemingly fully enlisted in the Zionist project, also explored possibilities of resistance to prevailing ideology. The effort to reinterpret these works beyond the framework of nationalism facilitated their (relative) canonization and rescued them from complete obscurity. Hence, since the early 1990s, feminist research on Hebrew literature has examined the various ways in which women writers have deployed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallFictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination by Orian Zakai (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USFictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination by Orian Zakai (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®174712026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Sharon Ann Musher (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982296
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Sharon Ann Musher, a professor of history at Stockton University, is a great-granddaughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983), founder of the Reconstructionist Movement within American Judaism. He and his wife Lena Rubin had four daughters, of whom the eldest, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, is remembered as the first Jewish American girl to officially have a bat mitzvah ceremony at age 12, on March 18, 1922. Musher's book concerns the second daughter—her grandmother—Hadassah Kaplan Musher (1912–2013), and particularly Hadassah's nine-month trip to Mandatory Palestine in 1932, at age 19, accompanied by several young women her age as well as women her mother's age who served as chaperones.The illuminating early sections
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallPromised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Sharon Ann Musher (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USPromised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Sharon Ann Musher (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®101042026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy Popkin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982297
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In 2002, Jeremy D. Popkin, a history professor at the University of Kentucky, reissued the 1951 novel Quiet Street with the University of Nebraska Press. Set in Jerusalem during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 and told from the perspective of a woman and mother, Quiet Street warrants the attention of twenty-first century readers; as Popkin explains in his introduction to the reprint, it was the first novel to explore the events leading to the creation of the state of Israel. The author of Quiet Street, Zelda Popkin (1898–1983), may be little-known today, but at the time of the book's original publication, she was a best-selling novelist of serious fiction that centered women's experiences and of escapist mystery
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallZelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy Popkin (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USZelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy Popkin (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®102102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Reading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era: Women, Sex, and Public Discourse ed. by Elaine T. James and Simeon B. Chavel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982298
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This focused collection of essays grew out of a 2019 conference in Chicago dedicated to "Women, the Song of Songs and Public Discourse," held in response to increased public awareness about violence against women. The conference encouraged dialogue among the participants, and the resulting essays reflect the interrelationship between individual contributions. The conference and the essays build on the revitalization of the feminist focus on the biblical Song of Songs (henceforth: Song) as from the 1970s, energized by J. Cheryl Exum's noteworthy 2005 commentary on the Song and by the emergence of the #MeToo movement's focus on women's voices calling out male abuse to a larger public.The introductory essay
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallReading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era: Women, Sex, and Public Discourse ed. by Elaine T. James and Simeon B. Chavel (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USReading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era: Women, Sex, and Public Discourse ed. by Elaine T. James and Simeon B. Chavel (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®153022026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex by Sarra Lev (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982299
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Ancient Greeks and Romans were endlessly fascinated with hermaphrodites. In their art, they objectified and eroticized them. In their literature, they often presented hermaphrodites monstrously or as foreboding signs sent by the gods. The law, recognizing only two genders, assessed individual hermaphrodites for their masculine and feminine traits and then shoehorned them into one or the other gender for legal purposes.Much has changed in societal treatment of the hermaphrodite. Activists and scholars have reclassified hermaphrodites (those born with both male and female genitalia, and/or other nonbinary secondary sex characteristics) into a broader class of individuals, now labeled "intersex." Many, perhaps most
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallAnd the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex by Sarra Lev (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USAnd the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex by Sarra Lev (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®132112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13The Jews of Zaragoza and the baths: The public bath, or that of the King, and the ritual, cold bath or mikveh by Asunción Blasco Martínez (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982300
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The "Jewish baths of Zaragoza" were not Jewish! This is the surprising discovery made by the eminent historian of the medieval Jewish presence in this Aragonese city. Asunción Blasco Martínez set forth to examine every piece of information she could locate pertaining to the baths that had existed in Zaragoza. She was determined to end the confusion as to which baths belonged to whom and where the ritual bath or micvé (as the Hebrew word mikveh is spelt in Spanish) that had served the Jewish community actually was.This author begins by contemplating the significance of water in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Since Spain was the only European country in the Middle Ages to accommodate all three religious groups, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallThe Jews of Zaragoza and the baths: The public bath, or that of the King, and the ritual, cold bath or mikveh by Asunción Blasco Martínez (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USThe Jews of Zaragoza and the baths: The public bath, or that of the King, and the ritual, cold bath or mikveh by Asunción Blasco Martínez (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®121982026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Mazaltob: A Novel by Blanche Bendahan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982301
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Early in Blanche Bendahan's 1930 novel Mazaltob, we find the eponymous Tetouan-born protagonist leafing through an almanac for and about early twentieth-century French women, featuring such items as "magical dancers," an "elegant Amazon rid[ing] a horse," and a singer being enthusiastically applauded. "But," reflects Mazaltob,
Who kneads the daily bread? Who makes the almond cakes…? Who distills the anisette? Who prepares the orange blossom jam? […] Who runs the household of these pretty ladies who seem to exist only to be admired […]?
(p. 8)
Mazaltob, a "beautiful girl" from a Judeo-Spanish family in northern Morocco, is only a child when she asks these questions, challenging the social and cultural categories
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallMazaltob: A Novel by Blanche Bendahan (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USMazaltob: A Novel by Blanche Bendahan (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®159752026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust by Robin Judd (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982302
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Robin Judd's Between Two Worlds looks at a topic that has garnered little previous attention, despite the large numbers involved: romantic ties between Jewish women and men (and sometimes between non-Jewish women and Jewish soldiers) after the conclusion of World War II, and particularly between Jewish women in Europe and male soldiers from Allied countries.The Jewish war brides Judd analyses were indeed "between two worlds," as they left the world of war and their former homes and entered a new world that was foreign to them in terms of language, culture, economy and more. What were these young people looking for; what attracted one to another; and how did the military forces deal with these marriages? These are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallBetween Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust by Robin Judd (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USBetween Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust by Robin Judd (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®119282026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson ed. by Goldie Morgentaler (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982303
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"What a beautiful thing friendship is," writes Chava Rosenfarb to her friend Zenia Larsson in June 1961. Writing from her home in Montreal, nearly two decades since she had last seen her childhood friend, she rejoices at the rejuvenating power of hearing from someone she feels a profound connection to, someone whose moods and desires are sister to her own. "When a letter arrives [from you]," she writes in the same letter, "I feel refreshed, reborn, full of hope and new strength" (p. 179).Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson unlocks the pages of the relationship between these two women, who love each other profoundly and are separated by language
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallLetters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson ed. by Goldie Morgentaler (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USLetters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson ed. by Goldie Morgentaler (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®148822026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History ed. by Annie Atura Bushell, Lori Harrison-Kahan and Ashley Walters (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/982304
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This collection of ten essays examines female Jewish authors' "wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the early twentieth century through the present." It focuses on writers whose work deviates from "reflexive and monolithic understandings of Jewishness in America" and celebrates their "new modes of belonging to heterogenous and emergent communities" (p. 3). The essays interrogate—in different ways—how Jewish women position themselves vis-à-vis surrounding cultures. Several chapters document Lori Harrison-Kahan's observation that Jewish women writers in some periods "have spoken for, and through, people of other races" (p. 73). Others reflect recent decades in which Jews have increasingly been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallMatrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History ed. by Annie Atura Bushell, Lori Harrison-Kahan and Ashley Walters (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USMatrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History ed. by Annie Atura Bushell, Lori Harrison-Kahan and Ashley Walters (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®109132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13The Woman Question in Jewish Studies by Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff (review)
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Over the past sixty years, women have increasingly pursued post-graduate education and have moved in ever larger numbers into professions that were once male preserves. While many women have achieved successful careers, few have done so without encountering sexism in its diverse forms. From skepticism about the possibilities of female achievement, to disdain for women's points of view, to disregard and disparagement of women's contributions, to sexual harassment of varying degrees, women have faced and continue to face challenges to their expertise and accomplishments, based solely on male attitudes towards their gender. Moreover, professional environments remain overwhelmingly male-oriented and are not attuned to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/243/image/coversmallThe Woman Question in Jewish Studies by Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff (review)2026-02-13text/htmlen-USThe Woman Question in Jewish Studies by Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff (review)2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®133212026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13