The Path of Moses

Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51423-2
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

Writing in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon, rabbi of a small Hungarian community, hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize women as equally privileged members of the People Israel. The result was his The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith, a ground-breaking enquiry into the causes of women’s exclusion from most of Judaism’s religious practices. Predating contemporary feminism, it gave early expression to ideas found in today’s religious feminist critique of women’s role in Judaism, thus undermining attempts to dismiss those ideas as shallowly mimicking fashionable secular opinion. The Path of Moses is here published for the first time in English, accompanied by the Hebrew original, an introduction, and commentary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartzmann, Julia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schwartzmann, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Schwartzmann, Ph.D. (1991), Hebrew University, is a Senior Lecturer of Jewish Thought at Western Galilee College. She has published papers on medieval Jewish thinkers’ attitude toward women and femininity, contemporary writings by religious women, and gendered discourse in Israeli religious society.