marginality and modernization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Parush, Iris
- Creator
- Sternberg, Saadya > (transl.)
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5934 - B
- Thesaurus
- joodse vrouwen, literatuur, Oost-Europa, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Translation from the Hebrew: Nashim korot: yitronah shel shuliyut (2001). Iris Parush examines the world of literate Jewish women, their reading habits, and their role in the cultural modernization of Eastern European Jewish society in the nineteenth century. She argues that because Jewish women were marginalized and neglected by rabbinical authorities, they were free to read secular literature in German, Yiddish, Polish, and Russian. As a result of their exposure to a wealth of literature, these reading women became significant conduits for Haskalah (Enlightenment) ideas and ideals within the Jewish community.