Great Jewish Women

by Robert Slater and Elinor Slater

Book Overview

Profiles of more than one hundred Jewish women who have had a great impact in their respective fields of endeavor, including Golda Meir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. senators... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824603702
• ISBN13: 9780824603700
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Jonathan David Publishers
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Much good work but not enough emphasis on Jewish values

This book has a great amount of commendable material in it. It writes of Jewish women of great distinction in short yet clear autobiographical sketches. It however diminishes its own value but including a too large number of present- day celebrities and lightweight figures. It too displays a certain political bias and there are a number of very left- wing politicians here whose contribution to Jewish life is extremely questionable. I also would have like to have seen many more of the great Jewish women intellectual figures, and heroines like Avital Sharansky , Ida Nudel and others who risked their lives for the Jewish people. A very large share of the entries are of people who have no real positive connection with Jewish communal life, and who just happen to be born Jewish something a few of them are not so happy about. There is much good stuff here.But a work of this kind could have been done with far greater emphasis on real Jewish values.

A great gift for Jewish Women

This book makes a great graduation gift or other gift for any jewish woman, young or old. It illustrates the accomplishments of women and shows the adversity that they overcame to achieve greatness. Enjoyable for woman of any age.