A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community

by Sylvia Barack Fishman

Book Overview

Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunities that feminism has encouraged, feel a new sense of self and entitlement. Yet as feminist advances have opened possibilities, they also have called into question traditional roles. The challenge to Jewish women today is to preserve the Jewish community and guarantee its survival while creating meaningful new social and spiritual models...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874517060
• ISBN13: 9780874517064
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"