On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader

By Heschel, Susannah (Ed.)
Schocken Books Inc., 1995, Paperback, 352 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0805210369

On Being a Jewish Feminist is indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary Judaism or contemporary Jewish thought.

In an understandable way for those who are non-Jewish, the reader is supplied with the targets of Jewish Feminism: the roles, images, assumptions to be questioned or re-created; the forgotten aspects of Jewish women's history to be remembered and studied; the myths to be redefined.

What is more, On Being a Jewish Feminist is not only a mere statement of objectives or a dispute of pre-suppositions: suggestions for change are furnished. At the same time, the dilemma of being Jewish and a Feminist, of heretically developing an identity, is expounded and explored.