Tamar Rudavsky

Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Tradition Tamar Rudavsky

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330). Review Quotes:"This exciting book is based on the premise that we do not already know what Jewish identities are. Mapping Jewish Identities offers pathways away from essentialized notions of Jewishness and provides the intellectual tool for 'alternative modes of Jewish becoming.' A treat to read."-Miriam Peskowitz, author of "Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History" and coeditor with Laura Levitt of "Judaism since Gender"Review Quotes:"The pleasures and rewards of this volume are ample. Mapping Jewish Identities opens up--and reinvigorates--questions of Jewish identity and difference. En route to revealing the multiple possibilities of modern Jewish identity, it also succeeds in charting vital new routes for Jewish Cultural Studies today."-Ann Pellegrini, author of "Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race"Publisher Marketing: A groundbreaking work that explores the statues of women and the complicated gender relations found in Judaism.

Contributor Bio:  Rudavsky, Tamar Mark Lilly is Senior Lecturer at the University of Tunis and the editor of "Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Texts". Contributor Bio:  Rudavsky, T M T. M. Rudavsky is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. She is author of Time Matters: Time and Cosmology in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2000). She is editor of Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Perspectives (1984) and Gender and Judaism: Tradition and Transformation (1995). Until June 2006, she was Director of the OSU Melton Center for Jewish Studies. Contributor Bio:  Silberstein, Laurence Laurence J. Silberstein is Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Studies at Lehigh University, where he directs the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies.