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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.

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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.

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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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Keywords

Activists Actors Anarchy Art Author Bible Books Business Choreography Civil Rights Communal Service Dance Education Feminism Fiction Film Hebrew Literature History Holocaust Jewish community Jewish education Jewish Law Jewish values Journalism Judaism Judges Labor Labor Movement Law Lawyers Medicine Midrash and Aggadah Military Service Music Organizations & Institutions Painting Performance Personalities Philanthropy Physicians Poetry Politicians Rabbis Racial discrimination Racial segregation Science Social Activism Social Welfare Teaching Television Tertiary education Theater Theme Unions Vocal performance Women Writer Writing Yiddish Literature Zionism

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Countries

Algeria Argentina Ashkenaz Australia Austria Babylonia Belgium Bohemia Brazil Canada Caribbean Islands Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Eastern Europe Egypt England Ethiopia Europe France Galicia Germany Greece Hungary India Iraq Israel Italy Judea Kurdistan Latvia Lithuania Mexico Morocco Netherlands New Zealand North America Palestine Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine USA USSR Venezuela Yemen Yishuv Yugoslavia

How to cite this page

Jewish Women's Archive. "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia." (Viewed on May 25, 2013) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia>.