Jewish womens exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to construct women as historical subjects, as a focus of inquiry, a subject of the story, an agent of the narrative, has only recently begun. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish womens ...
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Jewish womens exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to construct women as historical subjects, as a focus of inquiry, a subject of the story, an agent of the narrative, has only recently begun. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish womens experiences in Eastern Europe. The volume is edited by Paula Hyman of Yale University, a leading figure in Jewish womens history in the United States, and by ChaeRan Freeze of Brandeis University, author of a prize-winning study on Jewish divorce in nineteenth-century Russia. Their Introduction provides a much-needed historiographic survey that summarizes the major work in the field and highlights the lacunae. Their contributors, following this lead, have attempted to go
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