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This issue’s cover illustration is taken from artist Susan Schwalb’s contribution to Women of the Book: Jewish Women Recording, Reflecting, Revisioning, an international collaborative art project by 54 secular and religious Jewish women artists. Each will paint her visual interpretation of one weekly Torah portion on a piece of kosher klaf (parchment). Inspired by the form and content of a traditional Sefer Torah (Torah scroll), the pieces will be sewn together to form an illustrated midrashic scroll. For more information, please visit: http://www.shoshanagugenheim.com/art_in_community/women-of-the-book/.

  1. “May the Writer Be Strong”: Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Copied by and for Women
  2. Michael Riegler, Judith R. Baskin
  3. pp. 9-28
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  1. Gender, Penmanship and the Primacy of Speech over Writing in the Jewish Society of Galicia and Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
  2. Iris Parush
  3. pp. 29-66
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  1. Hava Shapiro’s Letters to Reuven Brainin
  2. Wendy Zierler
  3. pp. 67-97
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  1. The Demands of Integration—The Challenges of Ethnicization: Jewish Women’s Yiddish Reading Circles in North America between the Two World Wars
  2. Hagit Cohen
  3. pp. 98-129
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  1. Reading Rayna Batya: The Rebellious Rebbetzin as Self-Reflection
  2. Eliyana R. Adler
  3. pp. 130-152
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  1. Women and Jewish Literature
  2. Sheila E. Jelen
  3. pp. 153-173
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  1. A Woman within Zionism: The Path of Myriam Schach (1867–1956)
  2. Vincent Vilmain
  3. pp. 174-195
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  1. Israeli Women’s Leadership Today: A Panel Discussion
  3. pp. 196-214
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  1. The Illuminations of Ellen Frank
  2. Judith Margolis
  3. pp. 215-223
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  1. Poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch
  2. Dahlia Ravikovitch, Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld
  3. pp. 224-233
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  1. The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda (review)
  2. Henny Wenkart
  3. pp. 234-238
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  1. Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French (review)
  2. Paula E. Hyman
  3. pp. 239-241
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  1. My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland (review)
  2. Moshe Rosman
  3. pp. 242-247
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  1. Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Poetry (review)
  2. Wendy Zierler
  3. pp. 248-252
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  1. The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah (review)
  2. Aaron M. Singer
  3. pp. 253-265
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  1. Call for Papers: Women and Jewish Poetry
  3. pp. 266-267
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  1. Call for Papers: Jewish Women and Philanthropy
  3. pp. 268-269
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  1. Introduction
  2. Wendy Zierler
  3. pp. 5-8
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  1. Contributors to this Issue
  3. pp. 270-274
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