Esther D Rothblum, Rachel J Siegel, Ellen Cole

• Contents ForewordPreface Section I: From Generation to Generation: The Meanings of Mishpacha Living in a Glass Bowl: Tales of a Rabbi’s Daughter Bris, Britah: Parents’ First Lessons in Balancing Gender, Culture, Tradition, and Religion Married--Without a Chupa Queer Jewish Women Creating Families: New Perspectives on Jewish Family Values Mothers, Judaism, and True Honor Backwards and Forwards in America Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L’Chol Dor Va Dor Section II: Wandering Jews: Lives Fractured by Geography Jewish Identity Lost . . . and Found Trials and Tribulations in the First Year of a “Mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi Marriage” The Joys of Mitsvoth In Search of Eden Family Memories and Grave Anxieties Section III: The Journey Home Really Jewish You Don’t Know Me Because You Can Label Me: Self-Identity of an Orthodox Feminist The Journey Home: Becoming a Reconstructionist Rabbi Becoming Jewish How Jewish Am I? The Politics of Coming Home: Gender and Jewish Identities in the 1990s Why Kafka? A Jewish Lesbian Feminist Asks Herself Section IV: Eve and the Tree of Knowledge: Woman’s Place Among the People of the Book “I Don’t Know Enough”: Jewish Women’s Learned Ignorance Learning to Leyn Better Late than Early: A Forty-Eight-Year-Old’s Bat Mitzvah Saga Exploring Adolescent Jewish Female Identity: Reflections About Voice and Relation First There Are Questions Section V: Pain and Healing, Sorrow and Hope Jewish Battered Women: Shalom Bayit or a Shonde? Canadian Jewish Women and Their Experiences of Antisemitism and Sexism We Are Not As We Were: Jewish Women After the Holocaust Violent Legacies--Dialogues and Possibilities Glossary Index

Esther D Rothblum, Rachel J Siegel, Ellen Cole

• Contents ForewordPreface Section I: From Generation to Generation: The Meanings of Mishpacha Living in a Glass Bowl: Tales of a Rabbi’s Daughter Bris, Britah: Parents’ First Lessons in Balancing Gender, Culture, Tradition, and Religion Married--Without a Chupa Queer Jewish Women Creating Families: New Perspectives on Jewish Family Values Mothers, Judaism, and True Honor Backwards and Forwards in America Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L’Chol Dor Va Dor Section II: Wandering Jews: Lives Fractured by Geography Jewish Identity Lost . . . and Found Trials and Tribulations in the First Year of a “Mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi Marriage” The Joys of Mitsvoth In Search of Eden Family Memories and Grave Anxieties Section III: The Journey Home Really Jewish You Don’t Know Me Because You Can Label Me: Self-Identity of an Orthodox Feminist The Journey Home: Becoming a Reconstructionist Rabbi Becoming Jewish How Jewish Am I? The Politics of Coming Home: Gender and Jewish Identities in the 1990s Why Kafka? A Jewish Lesbian Feminist Asks Herself Section IV: Eve and the Tree of Knowledge: Woman’s Place Among the People of the Book “I Don’t Know Enough”: Jewish Women’s Learned Ignorance Learning to Leyn Better Late than Early: A Forty-Eight-Year-Old’s Bat Mitzvah Saga Exploring Adolescent Jewish Female Identity: Reflections About Voice and Relation First There Are Questions Section V: Pain and Healing, Sorrow and Hope Jewish Battered Women: Shalom Bayit or a Shonde? Canadian Jewish Women and Their Experiences of Antisemitism and Sexism We Are Not As We Were: Jewish Women After the Holocaust Violent Legacies--Dialogues and Possibilities Glossary Index

Esther D Rothblum, Rachel J Siegel, Ellen Cole

• Contents ForewordPreface Section I: From Generation to Generation: The Meanings of Mishpacha Living in a Glass Bowl: Tales of a Rabbi’s Daughter Bris, Britah: Parents’ First Lessons in Balancing Gender, Culture, Tradition, and Religion Married--Without a Chupa Queer Jewish Women Creating Families: New Perspectives on Jewish Family Values Mothers, Judaism, and True Honor Backwards and Forwards in America Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L’Chol Dor Va Dor Section II: Wandering Jews: Lives Fractured by Geography Jewish Identity Lost . . . and Found Trials and Tribulations in the First Year of a “Mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi Marriage” The Joys of Mitsvoth In Search of Eden Family Memories and Grave Anxieties Section III: The Journey Home Really Jewish You Don’t Know Me Because You Can Label Me: Self-Identity of an Orthodox Feminist The Journey Home: Becoming a Reconstructionist Rabbi Becoming Jewish How Jewish Am I? The Politics of Coming Home: Gender and Jewish Identities in the 1990s Why Kafka? A Jewish Lesbian Feminist Asks Herself Section IV: Eve and the Tree of Knowledge: Woman’s Place Among the People of the Book “I Don’t Know Enough”: Jewish Women’s Learned Ignorance Learning to Leyn Better Late than Early: A Forty-Eight-Year-Old’s Bat Mitzvah Saga Exploring Adolescent Jewish Female Identity: Reflections About Voice and Relation First There Are Questions Section V: Pain and Healing, Sorrow and Hope Jewish Battered Women: Shalom Bayit or a Shonde? Canadian Jewish Women and Their Experiences of Antisemitism and Sexism We Are Not As We Were: Jewish Women After the Holocaust Violent Legacies--Dialogues and Possibilities Glossary Index