Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

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Maxine Kumin

Kumin is a Jewish American woman poet whose writing closely examines what it means to negotiate the demands of two different cultures. Her work constantly questions and expands the concept of Jewishness in contemporary, culturally divided America.

Gerda Lerner

Entering the field of United States history with a freshly minted Ph.D. in 1966, Gerda Lerner blazed a new professional path that led to the establishment of the field of women’s history. The force of her personality and her commitment to the possibilities contained in the historical study of women made her impervious to the ridicule with which the male-dominated historical profession initially responded to the notion of women’s history.

Judith Plaskow

Judith Plaskow is the first Jewish feminist to identify herself as a theologian. Deeply learned in classical and modern Christian theology yet profoundly committed to her own Judaism, Plaskow created a distinctively Jewish theology acutely conscious of its own structure and categories and in dialogue with the feminist theologies of other religions.

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