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A Hebrew Maiden, Yet Acting Alien Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page i Reading Jewish Women Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page ii blank Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page iii Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Reading Jewish Society Jewish Women IRIS PARUSH Translated by Saadya Sternberg Brandeis University Press Waltham, Massachusetts Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page iv Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 www.upne.com © 2004 by Brandeis University Press Printed in the United States of America 54321 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or me- chanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors and publishers who would like to obtain permission for any of the material in the work, should contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. Originally published in Hebrew as Nashim Korot: Yitronah Shel Shuliyut by Am Oved Publishers Ltd., Tel Aviv, 2001. This book was published with the generous support of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry through the support of the Valya and Robert Shapiro Endowment of Brandeis University, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute through the support of the Donna Sudarsky Memorial Fund. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parush, Iris. [Nashim Korot. English.] Reading Jewish women : marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society / Iris Parush ; translated by Saadya Sternberg. p. cm. — (Brandeis series on Jewish women) (The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 1–58465–366–3 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 1–58465–367–1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Jewish women—Books and reading—Europe, Eastern—History—19th century. 2. Jewish women—Europe, Eastern—Intellectual life—19th century. 3. Women and literature—Europe, Eastern—History—19th century. 4. Literacy—Europe, Eastern—History—19th century. I. Title. II. Series. III. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) hq1172.p3713 2004 305.48'8924047'09034—dc22 2004001972 Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page v The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series Jehuda Reinharz, General Editor Sylvia Fuks Fried, Associate Editor The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Nazi persecutions between 1933 and 1945. The Institute seeks to study the history and culture of European Jewry in the modern period. The Institute has a special interest in studying the causes, nature, and consequences of the European Jewish catastrophe within the contexts of modern European diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history. Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1981 Joan G. 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Hubka, 2003 Shmuel Almog, Jehuda Reinharz, and Resplendent Synagogue: Anita Shapira, editors, 1998 Architecture and Worship in an Zionism and Religion Eighteenth-Century Polish Community Ben Halpern and Jehuda Reinharz, 2000 Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, 2003 Zionism and the Creation of a New Society Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns Walter Laqueur, 2001 Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Gideon Shimoni, 2003 Refugees from Nazi Germany Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa Yigal Schwartz, 2001 Aharon Appelfeld: Iris Parush, 2004 From Individual Lament to Tribal Eternity Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Renée Poznanski, 2001 European Jewish Society Jews in France during World War II Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page vii Brandeis Series on Jewish Women Shulamit Reinharz, General Editor Joyce Antler, Associate Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor The Brandeis Series on Jewish Women is a distinctive book series created by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. The series publishes a wide range of books by and about Jewish women in diverse contexts and time periods and scholarly books on topics re- lated to Jews and gender. 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Jewish Families and Mixed Soviet Émigré, 2001 Marriage, 2004 Jael Silliman Iris Parush Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope, 2001 Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society, 2004 Judith R. Baskin Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine Tamar Ross in Rabbinic Literature, 2002 Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism, 2004 ChaeRan Y. Freeze Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia, 2002 Mark A. Raider and Miriam B. Raider-Roth, editors The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine, 2002 Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page viii blank Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page ix For my parents Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page x blank Parush’s Reading Jewish Women page xi Contents Preface to the English Edition xiii Introduction Reading Women and the Spirit of Jewish
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