This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women

This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly

While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does

Woman's status in historical perspective. p. 273.