Identity, heroism and religion in the lives of contemporary Jewish women /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Bridges between yesterday and tomorrow : the role of diaspora culture in the stories of fifth Aliyah heroines
- The rescue of Jewish girls and teenage young women to England and the USA during the Holocaust from the gendered perspective
- The identity of women in the Sheerit hapletah : personal and gendered identity as determinants in their rehabilitation, immigration and resettlement
- Teacher, tiller, soldier, spy : women's representation in Israeli military memorials
- Founding myths and heroic icons : reflections on the funerals of Theodor Herzl and Hannah Szenes
- The lives and deaths of female military casualties in Israel during the 1950s
- Female icons of the zionist movement : the making of a national heroine in Israel
- Pioneers, teachers, and mothers : ultra orthodox women among Sheerit Hapletah
- Reflections on the study of women status and identity in the religious zionist movement
- Frum surfing : orthodox Jewish women's internet forums as a historical and cultural phenomenon
- "It is our custom from der alter heim" : the role of orthodox Jewish women's internet forums in reinventing and transmitting historical and religious tradition
- Bibliography
- Index.