Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel

by Tamar El-Or and Haim Watzman

Book Overview

An investigation into the education of women in the religious Zionist community and its influence on Orthodox Judaism.

In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently, women have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes the Talmud and midrashic books. But the situation is changing, partly because of the special emphasis that modern Judaism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814327729
• ISBN13: 9780814327722
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"