Pamela Nadell. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889–1985. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. xiii, 300 pp.
Pamela Nadell begins her history of “women who would have, if they could have, become rabbis” (p. x) with an acknowledgment “that uncovering women's history remains a political enterprise” (p. 13). Surprised to discover so many predecessors to today's female rabbis, Nadell enthusiastically...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2002
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AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 401-402 |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Pamela Nadell begins her history of “women who would have, if they could have, become rabbis” (p. x) with an acknowledgment “that uncovering women's history remains a political enterprise” (p. 13). Surprised to discover so many predecessors to today's female rabbis, Nadell enthusiastically traces the repetitive and discouraging history of arguments and efforts by diverse women to enter the rabbinate. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009402450118 |