Sisterhood : a centennial history of women of Reform Judaism / edited by Carole B. Balin, Dana Herman, Jonathan D. Sarna, & Gary P. Zola

Published:: Cincinnati, Ohio : Hebrew Union College Press, 2013.
Physical Description:: 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Balin, Carole B., Herman, Dana, and Sarna, Jonathan D.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I "We're Building Judaism": WRJ and Religion -- "The Synagog shall hear the Call of the Sister" Carrie Simon and the Founding of NFTS / Pamela S. Nadell -- "To Quicken the Religious Consciousness of Israel" The NFTS National Committee on Religion, 1913--1933 / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Mothers and Sons, Sisters and Brothers: Women of Reform Judaism and Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion / Jane F. Karlin -- The House [of Living Judaism] that Jane Evans and NFTS Built, 1951 / Rebecca Kobrin -- By Women, About Women, For Women? A New Torah Commentary for a New Millennium / Andrea L. Weiss -- pt. II "Bright Ideas": WRJ and Material Culture -- Cooking Reform Judaism / Noa Gutterman -- Constructing Identity: Sisterhood Gift Shops and the NFTS Campaign for Home Observance / Joellyn Wallen Zollman -- pt. III Y.E.S. (Youth, Education, and Special Projects) -- "Get the Uniongram Habit" NFTS's Imaginative Fundraising Campaign, 1913--1953 / Carole B. Balin -- Dreaming Dreams and Seeing Visions: NFTS and the Early History of the National Federation of Temple Youth / Jonathan Krasner -- "No Child's Play" Educating NFTS Women Jewishly / Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- "Peace Is Truly Our Mission" NFTS and the Peace Movement / Melissa R. Klapper -- "A Lamp Unto My Feet and a Light Unto My Path" NFTS and the Jewish Blind, 1927--1952 / Dana Herman -- pt. IV "Tomorrow's World": Sisterhood Envisions Change -- From Sabbath to Shabbat: The Changing Language of Reform Sisterhood Leaders, 1913--2012 / Sarah Bunin Benor -- Constructing Reform Gender Role Expectations: Foreshadowing Change / Sylvia Barack Fishman.

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ISBN:

9780878202546 (alk. paper)
0878202544 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-363) and index.

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