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Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Stephanie Wellen Levine
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-06 - Publisher: NYU Press

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A look at young Jewish women who are typecast as pious and reserved but have as much imagination and similar desires as other young women.
Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Stephanie Wellen Levine
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-26 - Publisher: NYU Press

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A rare look into the lives of Hasidic youth From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a str
Mitzvah Girls
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Ayala Fader
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-20 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examine
Through the Door of Life
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Joy Ladin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

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Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as
Wedding Song
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Farideh Goldin
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-10 - Publisher: UPNE

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An unflinching personal story of family, religion, and community that shows the horror of growing up in the shadow of religious fundamentalism.
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