Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant communities strove for middle-class respectability for themselves and their religion, even while fearing a loss of traditions and identity. For acculturating Jews some practices, like the ritual bath, quickly disappeared. Women's traditional segregation from the service in screened women's galleries was gradually replaced by family pews and mixed choirs. By the end of the century, with the rising tide of Jewish immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe, the spread of women's social and religious activism within a network of organizations brought collective strength to the nation's established Jewish community. Throughout these changing times, though, Goldman notes persistent ambiguous feelings about the appropriate place of women in Judaism, even among reformers. This account of the evolving religious identities of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century; it makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in America. (20010316)

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Goldman, Karla

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2001

United States, United States of America

June 30, 2000

2011 12 30

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Exegesis -- interpretation and explanation of sacred texts -- is the quintessence of rabbinic thought. Through such means and methods, the written words of Hebrew Scripture have been extended since antiquity, and given new voices for new times. In this lucid and often poetic book, Michael Fishbane delineates the connections between biblical interpretation and Jewish religious thought. The Exegetical Imagination is a collection of interrelated essays that together offer new and profound understanding of scriptural interpretation and its central role in Judaism.

Jewish Women: Acculturation In Old And New Worlds -- Women's Emergence In The Early American Synagogue Community -- The Quest For Respectability: Mixed Choirs And Family Pews -- The Trouble With Jewish Women -- Women In The Reforming Synagogue: Resistance And Transformation -- Kaufmann Kohler And The Ideal Jewish Woman -- Beyond The Gallery: American Jewish Women In The 1890s. Karla Goldman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Focusing on the nineteenth century, Goldman recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation-of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society.

2012-02-04