Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,3 (2020) 259-284
Keywords:
Salamon, Mózes.
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Women in Judaism
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Jewish women History 19th century
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Orthodox Judaism History 19th century
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Feminism Religious aspects
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Judaism
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History
Abstract:
This article aims to show that long before the famous debate over women’s suffrage (1918–25), women’s alienation from significant parts of Judaism was a fact that was obvious to those in the Orthodox community who were ready to admit it. To prove this, I discuss the late nineteenth-century essay Netiv Moshe: Maamar Mehkari 'al Mishpat haNashim baEmunah (A Scholarly Enquiry into the Case of Women in Religious Faith).1 This essay, written in Hungary by Mózes Salamon, the rabbi of a small provincial community, analyzes the gender problem in Judaism and reveals that the basic arguments of Jewish religious feminism had been expressed even before feminism as a movement came to terms with its objectives. This is the first scholarly analysis of this little known essay.
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