Tag Archives: women’s history
Following the Lead of My Radical Foremothers
by Dina Ripsman Eylon (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada) The idea to start an academic journal on Jewish women came to me while researching the lives of Rachel Yanait Ben Zvi, Mania Shochat and Netiva Ben Yehuda for an article on women … Continue reading
Filed under Jewish writing, Judaism
The Sacred, Secret World of Women
by Jan Booker (Malibu, CA) From early childhood, I was my grandmother’s frequent companion at the neighborhood public bath house whose clients were the Jewish immigrant women who had settled with their families in South Philadelphia. The place was known … Continue reading
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