Two Tsadikim, Two Women in Labor, and One Salvation: Reading Gender in a Hasidic Story

The paper offers a feminist-gendered reading of a Hasidic story about R. Yisroel of Ruzhin, who intervenes in the case of a pregnant woman experiencing difficulty in labor. R. Yisroel of Ruzhin chooses storytelling as the means to help the woman, reciting a known Christian tradition about a female p...

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Main Author: Kauffman, Tsippi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2011
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2011, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 420-438
Further subjects:B Disguise
B Womb
B Mordechai of Chernobyl
B Gentile
B raising the sparks
B Din
B Boundaries
B Hasidism
B Gender
B Birth
B Labor
B Yisroel of Ruzhin
B Hierarchy
B Salvation
B Pope
B Hesed
B Feminist
B Storytelling
B Motherhood
B Tzaddik
B Tikkun
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