Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 18: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe

by Antony Polonsky and ChaeRan Y. Freeze

Jewish women's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874774935
• ISBN13: 9781874774938
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"