Voices of the Matriarchs
Chava Weissler
1998
What does it mean to study women’s religion? How are we to define our subject matter? How are we to understand the relationship of the history of women’s religious life and practice to the history of particular religious traditions? This chapter explores these questions within the specific context of the religious life of Ashkenazic Jewish women in…
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