Yale University Library Research Guides: Research in Judaic Studies: Jewish Women's Studies

Primary Sources

Four centuries of Jewish women's spirituality : a sourcebook / edited by Ellen M. Umansky and Dianne Ashton.
From memory to transformation : Jewish women's voices / edited by Sarah Silberstein Swartz & Margie Wolfe.
Jewish women speak about Jewish matters / edited by Sarah Tikvah Kornbluth and Doron Kornbluth

Secondary Literature

A Ceremonies sampler : new rites, celebrations, and observances of Jewish women / edited by Elizabeth Resnick Levine.
[Collection of fourteen 19th century Tehinah prayer books from Eastern Europe]
Covenant of the heart : prayers, poems and meditations / from the Women of Reform Judaism.
Connections and collisions : identities in contemporary Jewish-American women's writing / edited by Lois E. Rubin.
Introduction : looking at Jewish women's writing through dual lenses / Lois E. Rubin -- Cynthia Ozick's classical feminism / Daniel Walden -- Coming of age : the creative development of seven Jewish women writers and their characters
Covenant [videorecording] : women, God & all between / written & directed by Nurit Jacobs-Yinon ; produced by Levi Zini, Duby Caroitoru
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Summary:The film focuses on the eight days between birth and circumcision, as observed in the Jewish faith, a week in which powerful emotions bring women to the heights of joy and the depths of pain, in which the extremities of the relationships with God are found. The film is about women, motherhood and their relationship to God.
A book of Jewish women's prayers : translations from the Yiddish / selected and with commentary by Norman Tarnor.
Tehinnot--Translations into English.
Jewish women--Prayer-books and devotions--English.
Daughters of Abraham : feminist thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito.
women, religion, and empowerment / John L. Esposito -- Settling at Beer-lahai-roi / Amy-Jill Levine -- Hearing Hannah's voice: the Jewish feminist challenge and ritual innovation / Leila Gal Berner -- The influence of feminism on Christianity / Alice L. Laffey -- Christian feminist theology: history and future / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Hagar: a historical model for "Gender Jihad" / Hibba Abugideiri -- Rethinking women and Islam / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol.
A Jewish feminine mystique? [electronic resource] : Jewish women in postwar America / edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson.
Jewish women in historical perspective / edited by Judith R. Baskin
Oxford Bibliographies Online - Women and Gender Relations / introduction by Judith R. Baskin

Welcome

Found in this guide are resources meant to aid students to begin research in Jewish womens' studies. The list is by no means comprehensive and materials will be added periodically as new publications appear. The guide should help you to begin your investigation into the field. I would also be delighted if in your research you find resources that you can recommend be included in the guide. Please direct your recommendations to nanette.stahl@yale.edu.