SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, and co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. The author of eight books and numerous articles on the changing Jewish family, intermarriage, transformations in gender roles, Jewish education, and American Jewish sociology, literature, and culture, Fishman received the 2014 Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.
A rich source of short stories and excerpts from novels, this
anthology charts the changing portrayals of Jewish women by Jewish
writers from the middle of the 19th century to the present . . .
Insightful introduction, brief but helpful biocritical descriptions
of each author, glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terms, supplementary
reading list. Highly recommended for readers at all levels.
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The selections themselves, even apart from Fishman s putting them
into context, make engaging reading as pure literature or social
documents. Kliatt Paperback Books Guide"
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