Jewish Women in History
Selected Titles
Paper $29.95
Mazaltob: A Novel
Written by Blanche Bendahan.
Translated by Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino
“This is a poignant coming‑of‑age novel which explores themes of feminism, decolonization, diaspora, orientalism and the struggle between modernity and tradition. The text is rich and lush in its descriptions of North African Jewish life and customs.” —Hey Alma
Paper $19.95
Glikl: Memoirs 1691‑1719
Annotated by and with an Introduction by Chava Turniansky
Translated by Sara Friedman
“Let us now praise famous Jewish women, indeed, as well as those who for the first time have brought into English this complete and meticulously curated edition of her endlessly fascinating Memoirs.” —Mosaic Magazine
“There is much to reward the reader in Glikl’s extraordinary memoirs.”
—Times Literary Supplement
Paper $29.95
A Jewish Woman of Distinction:The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
ChaeRan Y. Freeze
Translated by Gregory L. Freeze
“An intimate portrait of the daily trials of a young woman seeking to define herself in the midst of a large and extravagantly wealthy family living in a highly structured patriarchal society undergoing rapid change.”
—Slavic Review
Paper: $29.95
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
Edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Original, entertaining, thought-provoking, “Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine” will prove to be of special appeal to readers with an interest in Jewish themed literature and short story fiction. While especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Jewish literature fiction and short story collections, it should be noted that “Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine” is also available in a digital book format.”
— Midwest Book Review
Cloth: $30
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash
Edited by Tamar Biala
“Dirshuni is a step forward; it carves out a place for contemporary women to see themselves in the sacred texts. It focuses on the courage, the heartbreak, and the fight of biblical women — and it brings them to life. … What would Judaism look like if women had been reading, studying, interpreting, and commenting on our sacred texts all this time? Dirshuni gives us a glimpse of that, and the view is spectacular.” — Jewish Book Council
Cloth: $45
Sculpting A Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv
Paula J. Birnbaum
“Birnbaum has created a truly remarkable and compelling portrait of the internationally-exhibited multi-national sculptor who worked across—and fully participated in—the tumultuous decades of twentieth century Jewish, modernist and world histories from her elective home in Paris. Wide ranging-research sustains subtle insights into the formal, historical and cultural significance of Orloff’s compelling portraits of her Jewish intellectual, political and artistic contemporaries that she created alongside a modernizing, feminist exploration of women’s subjectivities and life experiences through sculptural embodiment. A truly vital monument to Chana Orloff’s extraordinarily fascinating place in our extended and fuller understanding of the art of the twentieth century and its creative communities.”— Griselda Pollock
Paper: $40.00
Bringing Down the Temple House: Engendering Tractate Yoma
Marjorie Lehman
“Strikingly original. Lehman brings to bear a feminist lens to demonstrate how one group of men (the rabbis) critiques and wrestles with the legacy of another group of men (the priests). Feminist attention to the constitutive relationships of the household (husband-wife, father-son, mother-son) illuminates the anxieties and tensions that play out as the rabbis claim the mantel of religious leadership from their priestly rivals.”
— Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Paper: $40.00
The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust
Janine P. Holc
“Meticulously researched and astutely observed, The Weavers of Trautenau is the first history of the 3,000 Jewish young women and girls detailed to forced labor in the Trautenau region (now in the Czech Republic) during the Holocaust years. Using a panoply of voices, Holc reconstructs their daily lives with great sensitivity. Insights abound as the narrative plumbs the girls’ experiences through an achingly perceptive analysis of their postwar testimonies.”— Debórah Dwork
