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The Patriarchy Issue the Patriarchy Issue SPRING 2019 SPRING 2019 The Patriarchy Issue The Patriarchy Issue SPRING 2019 Read AJS Perspectives online at associationforjewishstudies.org 2 | AJS PERSPECTIVES | SPRING 2019 From the Editors 6 From the President 8 From the Executive Director 10 Twelve Theses on the Patriarchy Issue 16 Expanding the Canon: Sephardic Sacred Music 58 Martin Kavka Por Qué No Cantais, La Bella? Reading Women’s Agency into the Sephardic Musical Canon Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Facing Patriarchy in the Profession Mar ‘Ukba Had a Poor Man (B. Ketubbot 67b): 62 Why It Was So Hard to Say #MeToo and What I 20 A Talmudic Patriarchay Narrative with a Learned When I Finally Did Metadialogue Commentary Keren R. McGinity Dov Kahane My Pioneer Days: Facing the Patriarchy at Hebrew 23 Did Soviet State Socialism Kill Patriarchy? 66 Union College Karolina Krasuska Karla Goldman Expanding the Canon: Medieval Poetry 68 A Patriarchal Miseducation 27 The Poem and Its Frame: On the Transmission of the Mika Ahuvia Arabic Poems by Qasmūna bint Ismāʻīl al-Yahūdī Guadalupe González Diéguez Harassment: An Unfinished Story 30 Anonymous Imaginary Letters by the Wives of Wilhelm Marr, 69 Patriarch of Antisemitism Gender Inclusivity: A Preliminary Guide for 34 Lisa Silverman Jewish Studies Scholars Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff LGBTQ Children of Holocaust Survivors 71 Jacob Evoy Dynamics of the Patriarchy in Jewish Communal Life: 38 An Infographic Expanding the Canon: Biblical Criticism 74 Elana Maryles Sztokman Patriarchy Is Alive and Well in Pentateuch Sarah Shectman Patriarchy: Undermined at Its Origin 46 Reconsidering Ancient Israelite “Patriarchy” 76 Lori Hope Lefkovitz Carol Meyers Listening for the Father: A Personal Narrative 48 Julian Levinson Teaching Against the Patriarchy Expanding the Canon: Translation 50 Where Are All the Women in Translation? The Gender Gap in the Field of Medieval Jewish 78 Aviya Kushner Intellectual History Jennifer Seligman Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti 51 Shalach Manot Modern Jewish Thought and the Fratriarchy 79 Andrea Dara Cooper Jewish Women Anthropologists, Patriarchal and Racial 53 “We Were Like Cancer Patients”: Ruth Klüger’s 81 Effects on Career Trajectories, 1930s–1980s Still Alive and Patriarchal Silencing Abby Gondek Matthew Brittingham “Are You Sure You Want To Hear This?”: 57 Disrupting Biblical Patriarchy in 280 Characters: 83 Centering Women’s Stories in Jewish History Examining the Inherent Patriarchal Nature of Jennifer Shaw 2 Samuel 11–12 Shayna Sheinfeld AJS Perspectives: Editors President The Magazine Chaya Halberstam Christine Hayes King’s University College Yale University of the Association Mira Sucharov Vice President / Membership for Jewish Studies Carleton University and Outreach Please direct correspondence to: Jeffrey Veidlinger Editorial Board Association for Jewish Studies University of Michigan Carol Bakhos 15 West 16th Street University of California, Los Angeles New York, NY 10011 Vice President / Program Samantha Baskind T: 917.606.8249 Noam Pianko Cleveland State University F: 917.606.8222 University of Washington [email protected] Zachary Braiterman Syracuse University Vice President / Publications associationforjewishstudies.org Robin Judd Michael Brenner The Ohio State University AJS Perspectives is published American University bi-annually by the Association Alanna Cooper for Jewish Studies. Secretary / Treasurer Case Western Reserve University Kenneth Koltun-Fromm The Association for Jewish Studies Lesleigh Cushing Haverford College is an affiliate of the Center for Colgate University Jewish History. Past President Nathaniel Deutsch Pamela S. Nadell © Copyright 2019 Association for University of California, Santa Cruz Jewish Studies ISSN 1529-6423 American University Ken Koltun-Fromm AJS Perspectives reserves the right Haverford College AJS Staff to reject advertisements or other Adam Mendelsohn Warren Hoffman items not consonant with the goals University of Cape Town Executive Director and purposes of the organization. Copy may be condensed or Ophir Münz-Manor Michelle Katz rejected because of length or style. Open University of Israel Membership and Conference AJS Perspectives disclaims respon- Content Manager Eva Mroczek sibility for statements made by University of California at Davis Karin Kugel advertisers and contributors. AJS Perspectives Managing Editor; Devin Naar Website Manager University of Washington Amy Ronek Joshua Schreier Marketing, Communications, Front and Back Covers: Vassar College and Public Engagement Manager Helène Aylon. Details from My Jacqueline Vayntrub Notebooks, 1998. Notebook covers. Heather Turk Yale University 8.5 in. x 11 in. Courtesy of the artist. Director of Events and Operations Yael Zerubavel Helène Aylon's memoir Whatever Is Amy Weiss Contained Must Be Released: Rutgers University My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life Grants and Professional as a Feminist Artist (The Feminist Press Development Manager Managing Editor at CUNY, 2012) is available through Amazon and the Leslie Tonkonow Karin Kugel Gallery, 535 W 22nd St, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011. Graphic Designers Inside Cover: Carrie Chatterson Studio Jacqueline Nicholls. “gittin 53” from Amanda Morante Wolin draw yomi: drawing the talmud, a page a day (https://drawyomi.blogspot.com/), 2016. Ink drawing on paper. Courtesy of the artist. 4 | AJS PERSPECTIVES | SPRING 2019 Contributors Chaya Halberstam Mira Sucharov Christine Hayes Warren Hoffman Martin Kavka Keren R. McGinity Karla Goldman Mika Ahuvia Anonymous Susannah Heschel Sarah Imhoff Elana Sztokman Lori Hope Lefkovitz Julian Levinson Aviya Kushner Photo credit: Danielle Aquiline Shalach Manot Abby Gondek Jennifer Shaw Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Dov Kahane Karolina Krasuska Guadalupe González Lisa Silverman Jacob Evoy Sarah Shectman Diéguez Carol Meyers Jennifer Seligman Andrea Dara Cooper Matthew Brittingham Shayna Sheinfeld AJS PERSPECTIVES | SPRING 2019 | 5 From the Editors Dear Colleagues, It seems there’s no better time for Jewish Studies teachers. How do these themes play out in our to tackle the patriarchy. Against the background of classroom? Where do these dynamics manifest in the #MeToo movement and a brighter spotlight on our professional lives? oppressive societal systems and structures, we’re becoming more aware than ever of the power For this Patriarchy Issue, the section on the profes- dynamics that privilege certain voices, bodies, and sion carries particular salience. We would like to scholarly work over others. We’re becoming more highlight four personal essays, by Keren McGinity, aware of how patriarchal habits seep into our Karla Goldman, Mika Ahuvia, and one anonymous classrooms and conferences. And we’re becoming author, that detail painful and harrowing journeys more aware of what we can do to address these of defying or negotiating patriarchal structures in tendencies. our field. Two of the essays discuss the conformism expected of women scholars in order to succeed: This Perspectives issue—the Patriarchy Issue—is, in Goldman narrates the process of her termination part, a response to a call to action. The pieces that when she could not fit into the boys’ club; Ahuvia follow seek to unmask, elucidate, question, or details the sacrifices she made when she adapted reconceive patriarchal structures in Jewish Studies. to patriarchal expectations—and her desire to undo They are a necessarily small sample of research the damage. The other two essays reveal the essays, fiction, and personal narratives that expose support our field has bestowed on harassers and the anxieties underlying patriarchal dominance, assailants for far too long. McGinity describes how that center voices and experiences often consid- a #MeToo moment led to what is hopefully a ered marginal, and that rethink conventional reckoning and course correction; the other assumptions about how the patriarchy operates. (anonymous) author relates her experience of Under the heading “Expanding the Canon,” we secondary, institutional harassment after filing a also highlight several shorter essays that expose complaint. In the case of the essay published the exclusion of women’s creative and intellectual anonymously, legal counsel pointed us in the work from a variety of Jewish Studies subfields. direction of removing the author’s own byline against her wishes. Perhaps this too is an expres- As the new editors of AJS Perspectives, we would sion of the patriarchy that sometimes exerts a type also like to draw your attention to two special of paternalism when what the author is craving is sections in the issue we intend as permanent full-throated agency. The experience of publishing features: a section on the profession, and a section these four essays reminds us of how far we have on pedagogy. As we encourage scholars to tackle yet to go in dismantling the patriarchy’s work of particular research themes we also hope to turn suppression and silencing. these same lenses on ourselves as academics and 6 | AJS PERSPECTIVES | SPRING 2019 Mira Sucharov & Chaya Halberstam We'd like to thank Karin Kugel for her outstanding Chaya Halberstam work in shepherding the Patriarchy Issue to produc- King’s University College tion. Finally, we’d like to dedicate this issue to the Mira Sucharov memory of Jonathan M. Hess, whose fine leader- Carleton University ship, along with that of Laura S. Lieber, helped inspire us to continue to identify pressing themes worth examining as a field, and to listen attentively to diverse voices. Jacqueline Nicholls. “ketubot 33” from draw yomi: drawing
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