Reading Jewish women : marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society / Iris Parush ; translated by Saadya Sternberg.
Reading women and the spirit of Jewish enlightenment -- Language, literacy, and literature as the battleground of haredim and maskilim -- Gender roles and women's "window of opportunity" -- The benefit of marginality: gender differences in the traditional educational system -- "A woman prides herself on cooing and prattling in French and German": the secular education of women -- The reading-biography of men -- "This whole trouble is the fault of the little story books": women who read Yiddish -- "A Hebrew maiden, yet acting alien": -- Women who read European languages -- "One in a thousand": women and the Hebrew language -- Hebrew--man's apparatus or woman's apparel?
Series:
Brandeis series on Jewish women The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
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