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Feminist Jewish Perspectives Nonfiction A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson, eds. Nonfiction A Life in Motion: A Memoir Florence Howe Fiction Aaron's Leap Magdaléna Platzová; Craig Cravens, trans. Fiction After Birth Elisa Albert Fiction All Grown Up Jami Attenberg Nonfiction All the Single Ladies Rebecca Traister Nonfiction An American Bride In Kabul: A Memoir Phyllis Chesler Nonfiction And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing Wendy I. Zierler Nonfiction Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank; Susan Massotty, trans. Fiction Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers Rhea Tregebov, ed.; Kathryn Hellerstein, intro. Visual Arts Arise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth and Hannah Debra Band Fiction Audacity Melanie Crowder Nonfiction Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 Melissa R. Klapper Nonfiction Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday Rivkah Slonim, ed.; Liz Rosenberg, consulting ed. Nonfiction Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer Children's Cleopatra’s Moon Vicky Alvear Schecter Nonfiction Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman Nonfiction Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick Nonfiction Emma Lazarus Esther Schor Nonfiction Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Anne Lapidus Lerner Nonfiction Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of Bessie Margolin Marlene Trestman Nonfiction Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature Ronit Irshai; Joel A. Linsider, trans. Nonfiction For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book Alicia Ostriker Nonfiction Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Nonfiction Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement Sarah Erdreich Fiction Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties Merrill Joan Gerber Nonfiction Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma Frederica K. Clementi Fiction If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters With Legendary Jewish Heroines Alice Becker Lehrer Nonfiction In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women Jewish Women’s Archive, ed. Nonfiction In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities Lori Hope Lefkovitz Nonfiction In the Darkroom Susan Faludi Nonfiction Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism: Blood and Ink Bonna Devora Haberman Nonfiction Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and Difference Esther Fuchs Nonfiction Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives Dina Pinsky Nonfiction Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West Jeanne E. Abrams Nonfiction Just Parenting: Building the World One Family at a Time Julie Greenberg Nonfiction Kaddish: Women's Voices Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas Nonfiction Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Rebecca Alpert Nonfiction Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State: Israel’s Civil War Susan M. Weiss & Netty C. Gross-Horowitz Nonfiction Memoir of an Independent Woman Tania Grossinger Fiction Mistress of the Art of Death Ariana Franklin Nonfiction Moses' Women Shera Aranoff Tuchman and Sandra E. Rapoport Nonfiction Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology Evelyn Torton Nonfiction Princess or Prisoner?: Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914 Margalit Shilo Nonfiction Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories Andrew Ramer Nonfiction Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context Carol Meyers Fiction Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate Letty Cottin Pogrebin Nonfiction Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World Linda Hirshman Nonfiction Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism Tikva Frymer-Kensky Nonfiction Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion Danya Ruttenberg Nonfiction The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice M.G. Lord Nonfiction The Birth of the Pill Jonathan Eig Nonfiction The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003 Judith Plaskow, Donna Berman, eds. Fiction The Cosmopolitans Nadia Kalman Fiction The Dead Man Nora Gold Nonfiction The End of Men: And the Rise of Women Hanna Rosin Nonfiction The Good Girls Revolt Lynn Povich Nonfiction The Miriam Tradition: Teaching Embodied Torah Cia Sautter Fiction The Most Dangerous Thing Leanne Lieberman Nonfiction The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family Madeleine Kunin Nonfiction The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer Rita Lakin Nonfiction The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism Danya Ruttenberg, ed. Nonfiction The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter Bonnie S. Anderson Fiction The Red Tent: A Novel Anita Diamant Nonfiction The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds. Fiction The Song of Hannah Eva Etzioni-Halevy Nonfiction The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama Nicole Hollander Nonfiction The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom Elana Sztokman Fiction The Wayward Moon Janice Weizman Nonfiction The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy Christine Pullen Nonfiction The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 Carol K. Ingall, ed. Nonfiction Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles Panthea Reid Children's Tucson Jo Carol Matas Nonfiction Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice Janet Malcolm Fiction Unterzakhn Leela Corman Nonfiction Vagina: A New Biography Naomi Wolf Nonfiction Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior Mindy Budgor Nonfiction We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy Yael Kohen Nonfiction Whatever is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist Helène Aylon Nonfiction When We Were Free to Be Lori Rotskoff Nonfiction Witness Ruth Gruber; Richard Holbrooke, fwd. Nonfiction Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship Frederick E. Greenspahn, ed. Nonfiction Women Remaking American Judaism Riv-Ellen Prell, ed.; David Weinberg, fwd. Nonfiction You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother Joyce Antler Nonfiction A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community Sylvia Barack Fishman Jewish Text A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book Aliza Lavie Nonfiction Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism Tamar Ross Nonfiction Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation Tova Hartman Nonfiction New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future Elyse Goldstein, ed. Nonfiction On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition Blu Greenberg Nonfiction The JPS Guide to Jewish Women Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry and Cheryl Tallan, eds. Nonfiction The Torah: A Women's Commentary Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea L Weiss, eds. Nonfiction Women and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives Rabbi Daniel Sperber, et al.
Nonfiction A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson, eds.
Nonfiction And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing Wendy I. Zierler
Fiction Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers Rhea Tregebov, ed.; Kathryn Hellerstein, intro.
Nonfiction Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 Melissa R. Klapper
Nonfiction Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday Rivkah Slonim, ed.; Liz Rosenberg, consulting ed.
Nonfiction Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
Nonfiction Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman
Nonfiction Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Anne Lapidus Lerner
Nonfiction Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature Ronit Irshai; Joel A. Linsider, trans.
Nonfiction In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women Jewish Women’s Archive, ed.
Nonfiction Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West Jeanne E. Abrams
Nonfiction Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Rebecca Alpert
Nonfiction Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State: Israel’s Civil War Susan M. Weiss & Netty C. Gross-Horowitz
Nonfiction Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World Linda Hirshman
Nonfiction The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice M.G. Lord
Nonfiction The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003 Judith Plaskow, Donna Berman, eds.
Nonfiction The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family Madeleine Kunin
Nonfiction The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer Rita Lakin
Nonfiction The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds.
Nonfiction The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama Nicole Hollander
Nonfiction The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom Elana Sztokman
Nonfiction Whatever is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist Helène Aylon
