{"title":"Women in Yiddish","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Women in Yiddish collection. Best Price.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"three-groundbreaking-jewish-feminists-pursuing-social-justice-by-sharon-leder","title":"Three Groundbreaking Jewish Feminists: Pursuing Social Justice by Sharon Leder","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree groundbreaking Jewish feminists-- women's historian Gerda Lerner, feminist Surrealist artist Susana Wald, and former CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) Ruth W. Messinger--devoted their careers to a universal message inherent in the Jewish tradition-no one should be made into a stranger. Though different in their personal histories and professional fields they found ways to empower marginalized and outcast populations doing so publicly and intentionally as Jews after significant periods of having muted Jewish identity. Their lives raise the question: Is simultaneous commitment possible both to Jewish continuity and to helping non-Jewish strangers in need?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuth W. Messinger, probably the most well-known, made it clear and public only once she became CEO of American Jewish World Service that being Jewish means being your brother's and sister's keeper, regardless of their nation, race, sexual identity, class or religion. She expanded the Jewish universe of obligation to include non-Jews in crisis around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Both Gerda Lerner and Susana Wald were Holocaust survivors who escaped to the Americas from dictatorships. Following the command in Exodus, \"You shall not oppress a stranger . . . having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt,\" they connected their vulnerability as Jews in Europe to populations in the U.S., Chile, and Mexico also targeted by discrimination-women, Blacks, and indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGerda Lerner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, demonstrated the existence of American women's history, including Black women's history, as academic fields of study. Why did she mute her Jewish identity until the last decades of her career when the first intifada in Israel broke out?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Susana Wald is one among few female Surrealist artists devoted to social change who is not known as \"wife of . . .\". Why did she mute Jewish identity for years, until the mass demonstrations for indigenous people's rights in Oaxaca, Mexico when she addressed audiences in person and on radio?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor Jews and non-Jews, this book illuminates how universal values drive three women to become public about Jewish identity because they view the purpose of Jewish life to be alleviating inequity and suffering of all people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495248265277,"sku":"brs1787285422262","price":10.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/three-groundbreaking-jewish-feminists-pursuing-social-justice-by-sharon-leder_1.jpg?v=1787285427"},{"product_id":"women-writing-jewish-modernity-19191939-by-allison-schachter","title":"Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 by  Allison Schachter","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWomen Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal norms of Jewish textual authority and reconceptualize Jewish cultural belonging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in the former Russian and Austro‑Hungarian Empires and writing from their homes in New York, Poland, and Mandatory Palestine, the authors central to this book—Fradl Shtok, Dvora Baron, Elisheva Bikhovsky, Leah Goldberg, and Debora Vogel—seized on the freedoms of social revolution to reimagine Jewish culture beyond the traditionally male world of Jewish letters. The societies they lived in devalued women’s labor and denied them support for their work. In response, their writing challenged the social hierarchies that excluded them as women and as Jews. As she reads these women, Schachter upends the idea that literary modernity was a conversation among men about women, with a few women writers listening in. Women writers revolutionized the very terms of Jewish fiction at a pivotal moment in Jewish history, transcending the boundaries of Jewish minority identities. Schachter tells their story and in so doing calls for a new way of thinking about Jewish cultural modernity.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495248363581,"sku":"ldy1787285426220","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/women-writing-jewish-modernity-19191939-by-allison-schachter_1.jpg?v=1787285431"}],"url":"https:\/\/ownstyleboutique.shop\/collections\/women-in-yiddish.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}