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Expanding the Palace of Torah Orthodoxy and Feminism
ISBN: PB: 9781684580514, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider – herself an Orthodox Jew – Tama...
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Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland
ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...
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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...
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Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...
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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law
ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...
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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
ISBN: PB: 9781512600353, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law – such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation – have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of ob...
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£34,00
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Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States
ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...
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Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church
ISBN: PB: 9781611689099, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in Wes...
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Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...
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Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...
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