Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
36,2 (2021) 31-47
Schlagwort(e):
Women Political activity
;
Women Social conditions
;
Chief Rabbinate
;
Suffrage
Kurzfassung:
This article presents a feminist perspective on polity, religion, and gender in the Yishuv. It analyzes how each of these three categories is shaped by its intersection with the others while simultaneously constituting the whole. Two major decisions that were enacted in the 1920s—women's right to vote and the institutionalization of the Chief Rabbinate—serve as case studies of the formation of these categories, as well as of the creation of social boundaries, the politics of inclusion and exclusion, and the culture of political arrangements in the Jewish state-in-the-making. Women were both the focus of and significant actors in these multi-dimensional conflicts. They won their rights for equal citizenship in terms of suffrage, but lost their personal status rights as a result of the institutionalization of the Chief Rabbinate.
DOI:
10.3167/isr.2021.360204
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