Feminist Interpretations of the Talmud

H-Judaic TOC: NASHIM no. 28: FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THE TALMUD

Discussion published by Deborah Greniman on Friday, July 3, 2015

FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THE TALMUD: A Collection of Feminist Talmud Commentaries Honoring Judith Hauptman on Her Seventieth Birthday

Consulting Editors: Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman

Now available on the JSTOR site at ://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=nashim

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, Introduction

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Education as Filiation – BT ‘Eruvin 72b–73a

Judith Hauptman, The Talmud’s Women in Law and Narrative

Tal Ilan, “A Menstruant Who Was Forced and Immersed”: “Women to Think With” about Intention in the Performance of the Commandments – BT Ḥulin 31a–b

Jane L. Kanarek, Pilgrimage and Piety: Rabbinic Women and Vows of Valuation – Mishnah‘Arakhin 5:1, Tosefta ‘Arakhin 3:1, BT ‘Arakhin 19a

Gail Labovitz, A Man Spinning on His Thigh: Gender, Positive Time-Bound Commandments and Ritual Fringes – Mishnah Mo‘ed katan 3:4

Marjorie Lehman, Imagining the Priesthood in Tractate Yoma – Mishnah Yoma 2:1–2 and BT Yoma 23a

Sarra Lev, Inside/Outside: The Rabbinic Negotiation of Binaries – BT Me‘ilah 15b–16a

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, When the Dead Want to Primp: Talmudic Gender as Theological Prompt – BT Berakhot 18b

Christiane H. Tzuberi, A House Inside a House – Mishnah Ohalot 7:4

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Melanie Landau, Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage: Beyond the Sanctification of Subordination, reviewed by Avishalom Westreich

Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas (eds.), Kaddish: Women’s Voices,reviewed by Elana Maryles Sztokman

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Natalie Naimark-Goldberg, Enlightened Jewish Women in Berlin, reviewed by Yemima Chovav

Zipora Shehory-Rubin, Pioneering Jewish Women Doctors in Eretz Israel, 1900–1918,reviewed by Nira Bartal

Nora Gold, Fields of Exile, reviewed by Goldie Morgentaler

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Resident Artist:

Judith Margolis, Found Treasures, Myth and Midrash: Jo Milgrom’s “Cherubim”

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