Jewish Women In Your Life |
We Remember |
In Focus: Thematic Contexts |
Jewish Women Today |
Jewish Women Through the Year |
Exhibits |
Resources
Jewish Women In Your Life
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia: Edited by Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer, this electronic encyclopedia, available only on CD-ROM, covers Jewish women's experiences to encompass three millennia and Jewish women worldwide.
How-To: Uncovering and documenting our rich history relies on you. We have collected a few articles to get you started.
How-To: Preservation: An introduction to preserving important papers and images
How-To: In Our Own Voices: By using oral history to record Jewish women's stories, we are documenting a vital part of our collective past. JWA's oral history resources provide tools for individuals and groups to conduct interviews with the important Jewish women in their own lives.
How-To: 20 Questions to Ask the Important Women in Your Life: a handy set of 20 innovative questions for eliciting women's stories for use in your family, classroom, or community program
JWA's "We Remember" pays tribute to the lives and careers of a few of the recently deceased American Jewish women who have made a difference to our community and our world.
In Focus: Thematic Contexts
Jewish Women Today
Women Who Dared
This exhibit celebrates the lives of contemporary Jewish women of all ages who have dared to stand up for the rights of others.
Baltimore Stories
Explore the worlds of these women, born in the early years on the 20th century, through the women's own words, intimate photographic portraits, and vibrant works of interpretive art.
Seattle Stories
Share the stories of a dynamic generation of Jewish women, whose stories have too often been missing from the pages of our communal experience.
Jewish Women Through the Year
January—Tu B'Shvat—Environmental Activism
February—Civil Rights
March—National Women's History Month | Queen Esther: A Purim Heroine | A Feminist Talmud Page
April—Midwives
May—Jewish American Heritage Month | Jewish Mothers | Memorial Day
June—GLBT Pride Month
July—Women on the Road
August—Education
September—High Holy Days
October—Breast Cancer Awareness Month
November—Politics | Patriotism and Dissent
December—Judith, Part of the Hanukkah Story
Exhibits
Resources
Reading Series: A Place in History
Each book in this series presents us with an authentic and unique voice of a Jewish woman who took the trouble to record her remarkable history for herself-and for posterity. In telling their stories, they suggest a great deal about the stories of other Jewish women who were unable to offer theirs.
Posters series—Women of Valor
Books—Reading on Jewish Women in America
Celebration of 350 years of Jewish Women Building Communities in North America, 2004—2005
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