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Research paper thumbnail of Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or m... more All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series Jehuda Reinharz, General Editor Sylvia Fuks Fried, Associate Editor The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Nazi persecutions between 1933 and 1945. The Institute seeks to study the history and culture of European Jewry in the modern period. The Institute has a special interest in studying the causes, nature, and consequences of the European Jewish catastrophe within the contexts of modern European diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history. Preface to the English Edition xix It is a pleasure to owe a debt of gratitude also to the artist Yosl Bergner, whose grandmother Hinde Bergner is one of this book's heroines, for the wonderful drawing that graces its cover. Finally, I wish to thank my parents Greti and Victor Shem-Tov and my son, Ori, who followed the progress of this book with interest, support and sympathy. I. P. May 2003 Reading Jewish Women Similarly, with a sharp pathos rarely to be seen in his polemical articles, Shalom Yaakov Abramovitch, a.k.a. Mendele the Bookseller (1835-1917),

Research paper thumbnail of Published by University Press of New England

Published by University Press of New England,

Research paper thumbnail of Epilogue: Writing, Tradition, and Modernity in “Only for the Lord Alone” by S. Y. Agnon

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Intentional Ignorance of the Hebrew Language

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Primacy of Speech Over Writing in Hasidic Society

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of “I Made Myself a Notebook of Blank Paper”: The Sins of Writing and the Constitution of the Subject

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Literacy: Theory, Methodology, Ethnography

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of From Mother Tongue to Father Tongue: The Study of Grammar, Reading, and Writing in Hebrew as a Male Maskilic Rite of Passage

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

New Directions in Book History, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Without Writing and the Myth of Universal Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Jewish National Identity in Composer Ernest Bloch ’ s Œ uvre Zecharia Plavin

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Penmanship and the Primacy of Speech over Writing in the Jewish Society of Galicia and Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 2008

One of the codes exposed by the maskilic challenge to rabbinic authority is that of the primacy o... more One of the codes exposed by the maskilic challenge to rabbinic authority is that of the primacy of orality over writing. In the first part of this article, I will discuss the meanings of this code in light of its treatment by Plato on the one hand, and by Derrida on the other. Thereafter, I will touch upon several methodological issues and theoretical models used by scholars of literacy to analyze literacy policy and its effects. Finally, I will look at several of the cultural meanings and gender implications of the primacy of speech over writing in traditional Jewish society’s encounter with modernity. Within this framework, I will probe the cogency and, mainly, the limitations of women’s “benefit of marginality” in east European Jewish society. In other words, I will endeavor to show how the marginal role assigned to women in the realms of religion, culture and intellectual life actually provided them with islands of unregulated space, in which they had a significant degree of freedom to gain literacy skills of value from the perspective of modern society.

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Literacy: Women and Foreign Languages in Jewish Society of 19TH-CENTURY Eastern Europe

Modern Judaism, 1995

... school in Kovno was said to have "produced so many Russian-speaking young ladies in the ... more ... school in Kovno was said to have "produced so many Russian-speaking young ladies in the past fifteen years, that they aroused the anger of the Poles, who complained that ten Muravyovs would not be able to 'Russify' Kovnoh like those Jewish girls, who filled the air with their ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. By Iris Parush (Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press, xix plus 340 pp. $29.95)

Journal of Social History, 2005

... Marjorie Agos1n Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America, 1... more ... Marjorie Agos1n Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America, 1999 Rahel R. Wasserfall, editor Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law, 1999 Susan Starr Sered What Makes Women Sick? ...

Research paper thumbnail of Women Readers as Agents of Social Change among Eastern European Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gender <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> History, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Another Look at "The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew": Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

Book History, 2004

One hundred and Wfty years of arduous attempts to revive Hebrew as a modern literary language pre... more One hundred and Wfty years of arduous attempts to revive Hebrew as a modern literary language preceded its revival as a spoken language. Yet, from its incipience to the end of the nineteenth century, modern Hebrew literature could barely gain itself a narrow circle of devoted readers. One of the more acute expressions of the distress of Hebrew authors in the last third of the century was voiced by Yehudah Leib Gordon (1830–92), the greatest of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) poets.1 In 1871 Gordon published the poem “For Whom Do I Labor?” out of a sense that, lacking an audience, he was perhaps the last of the Hebrew poets: Another Look at “The Life of ‘Dead’ Hebrew”

Research paper thumbnail of The Written Torah and the Oral Torah: Class, Gender, and the Cultural Images of the Corpora

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Primacy of Speech Over Writing in Mitnagdic Society

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Narodowość, syjonizm i dyskurs teologiczny: Dawid Fryszman wobec Chaima Nachmana Bialika

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or m... more All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series Jehuda Reinharz, General Editor Sylvia Fuks Fried, Associate Editor The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Nazi persecutions between 1933 and 1945. The Institute seeks to study the history and culture of European Jewry in the modern period. The Institute has a special interest in studying the causes, nature, and consequences of the European Jewish catastrophe within the contexts of modern European diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history. Preface to the English Edition xix It is a pleasure to owe a debt of gratitude also to the artist Yosl Bergner, whose grandmother Hinde Bergner is one of this book's heroines, for the wonderful drawing that graces its cover. Finally, I wish to thank my parents Greti and Victor Shem-Tov and my son, Ori, who followed the progress of this book with interest, support and sympathy. I. P. May 2003 Reading Jewish Women Similarly, with a sharp pathos rarely to be seen in his polemical articles, Shalom Yaakov Abramovitch, a.k.a. Mendele the Bookseller (1835-1917),

Research paper thumbnail of Published by University Press of New England

Published by University Press of New England,

Research paper thumbnail of Epilogue: Writing, Tradition, and Modernity in “Only for the Lord Alone” by S. Y. Agnon

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Intentional Ignorance of the Hebrew Language

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Primacy of Speech Over Writing in Hasidic Society

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of “I Made Myself a Notebook of Blank Paper”: The Sins of Writing and the Constitution of the Subject

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Literacy: Theory, Methodology, Ethnography

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of From Mother Tongue to Father Tongue: The Study of Grammar, Reading, and Writing in Hebrew as a Male Maskilic Rite of Passage

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

New Directions in Book History, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Without Writing and the Myth of Universal Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Jewish National Identity in Composer Ernest Bloch ’ s Œ uvre Zecharia Plavin

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Penmanship and the Primacy of Speech over Writing in the Jewish Society of Galicia and Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 2008

One of the codes exposed by the maskilic challenge to rabbinic authority is that of the primacy o... more One of the codes exposed by the maskilic challenge to rabbinic authority is that of the primacy of orality over writing. In the first part of this article, I will discuss the meanings of this code in light of its treatment by Plato on the one hand, and by Derrida on the other. Thereafter, I will touch upon several methodological issues and theoretical models used by scholars of literacy to analyze literacy policy and its effects. Finally, I will look at several of the cultural meanings and gender implications of the primacy of speech over writing in traditional Jewish society’s encounter with modernity. Within this framework, I will probe the cogency and, mainly, the limitations of women’s “benefit of marginality” in east European Jewish society. In other words, I will endeavor to show how the marginal role assigned to women in the realms of religion, culture and intellectual life actually provided them with islands of unregulated space, in which they had a significant degree of freedom to gain literacy skills of value from the perspective of modern society.

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Literacy: Women and Foreign Languages in Jewish Society of 19TH-CENTURY Eastern Europe

Modern Judaism, 1995

... school in Kovno was said to have "produced so many Russian-speaking young ladies in the ... more ... school in Kovno was said to have "produced so many Russian-speaking young ladies in the past fifteen years, that they aroused the anger of the Poles, who complained that ten Muravyovs would not be able to 'Russify' Kovnoh like those Jewish girls, who filled the air with their ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. By Iris Parush (Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press, xix plus 340 pp. $29.95)

Journal of Social History, 2005

... Marjorie Agos1n Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America, 1... more ... Marjorie Agos1n Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America, 1999 Rahel R. Wasserfall, editor Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law, 1999 Susan Starr Sered What Makes Women Sick? ...

Research paper thumbnail of Women Readers as Agents of Social Change among Eastern European Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gender <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> History, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Another Look at "The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew": Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society

Book History, 2004

One hundred and Wfty years of arduous attempts to revive Hebrew as a modern literary language pre... more One hundred and Wfty years of arduous attempts to revive Hebrew as a modern literary language preceded its revival as a spoken language. Yet, from its incipience to the end of the nineteenth century, modern Hebrew literature could barely gain itself a narrow circle of devoted readers. One of the more acute expressions of the distress of Hebrew authors in the last third of the century was voiced by Yehudah Leib Gordon (1830–92), the greatest of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) poets.1 In 1871 Gordon published the poem “For Whom Do I Labor?” out of a sense that, lacking an audience, he was perhaps the last of the Hebrew poets: Another Look at “The Life of ‘Dead’ Hebrew”

Research paper thumbnail of The Written Torah and the Oral Torah: Class, Gender, and the Cultural Images of the Corpora

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Primacy of Speech Over Writing in Mitnagdic Society

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Narodowość, syjonizm i dyskurs teologiczny: Dawid Fryszman wobec Chaima Nachmana Bialika