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Author:

Parush, Iris. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004050602

Title:

Reading Jewish women : marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society / Iris Parush ; translated by Saadya Sternberg.

Publisher:

Brandeis University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xix, 340 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Jewish women--History--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.
Jewish women--Europe, Eastern--Intellectual life--19th century.
Women and literature--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.
Literacy--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Other Titles:

Nashim ḳorʼot. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

9781584653677
1584653671
9781584653660
1584653663

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54400090

LCCN:

2004001972

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)