"The First Night"
Abaye said, Mother told me: Like hot water on a bald man’s head. Raba said, the daughter of Rab Hisda (Raba’s wife) told me: Like the prick of bloodletting. Rav Papa said, the daughter of Aba of Sura (Rav Papa’s wife) told me: Like hard bread for the gums. [Babylonian Talmud Ketubot 39b] (The Defiant Muse, Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem and Tamar S. Hess. With a foreward by Alicia Suskin Ostriker. The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women’s Series. New York: Feminist Press, 1999, p. 59. This passage was translated by Shirley Kaufman and Galit Hasan-Rokem.)
Abaye said, Mother told me: Like hot water on a bald man’s head. Raba said, the daughter of Rab Hisda (Raba’s wife) told me: Like the prick of bloodletting. Rav Papa said, the daughter of Aba of Sura (Rav Papa’s wife) told me: Like hard bread for the gums. [Babylonian Talmud Ketubot 39b] (The Defiant Muse, Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem and Tamar S. Hess. With a foreward by Alicia Suskin Ostriker. The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women’s Series. New York: Feminist Press, 1999, p. 59. This passage was translated by Shirley Kaufman and Galit Hasan-Rokem.)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Changes in the Social Status of Urban Jewish Women in Iraq as the Nineteenth Century Turned | HTML PDF |
| Shaul Sehayek |
| "The Defense Has Become the Prosecution:" Ezrat HaNashim, a Thirteenth-century Response to Misogyny | HTML PDF |
| Jill Jacobs |
| Ronit Matalon’s Ethnic Masterpiece | HTML PDF |
| Dvir Abramovich |
| A Mystery on the Tombstones: “Women’s Commandments” in Early-Modern Askenazi Culture | |
| Evyatar Marienberg |
Book Reviews
| Fuchs, Esther, ed. Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation. Studies in the Shoah, no. 22. Lanham, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 1999. | HTML PDF |
| Robyn Sassen |
| Angier, Carole. The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 2002. | HTML PDF |
| Elaine Margolin |
| Davis, Chuck. Raising the Sparks: A Personal Search for a Spiritual Home in Judaism. Boulder, CO: Throughline Productions and Delphi Production, 2001. Color. 60 minutes. VHS. | HTML PDF |
| Frances Frommer |
| Linda D. Cirino. Eva’s Story. Princeton: Ontario Press, 1999. | HTML PDF |
| Robyn Sassen |
| Naomi Graetz. Silence Is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating. Northdale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1998. | HTML PDF |
| Robyn Sassen |
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