This is an indis­pens­able resource about the role of Jew­ish women from post-bib­li­cal times to the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. Unique in its approach, it is struc­tured so that each chap­ter, which is divid­ed into three parts, cov­ers a spe­cif­ic peri­od and geo­graph­i­cal area.