Educated and Ignorant : : Ultraorthodox Jewish Women and Their World /

Educated and Ignorant : : Ultraorthodox Jewish Women and Their World / / Tamar El-Or.

This ethnography investigates the meaning of learning in the lives of ultraorthodox Jewish women. Presenting a vivid portrayal of the Gur Hasidic community in Israel, El-Or explores the relationship between women's literacy and their subordination. What she finds is a paradox: ultraorthodox wom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
El-Or, Tamar ,
MitwirkendeR:
El-Or, Tamar,
Watzman, Haim,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©1994
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Translator's Note
  • Introduction. The Road to the Development
  • 1 The Our Hasidim and the Development
  • 2 Educated and Ignorant
  • 3 The Substantial and the Practical
  • 4 “Make Thy Way Straight Before Me”
  • Afterword Cultures in Context
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book and Author

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