Jewish Feminism & Women’s Activism


Jewish Women Look the Year 2000: Shaping the Future.” Na’amat Woman (Jan/Feb 1988) 4-29.

Abzug, Bella, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and E. M. Broner. “The Playpen of the Patriarchs: Why We Needed a Conference on the Empowerment of Jewish Women.” Lilith 14 (Spring 1989) 33-35.

Biren, Joan E. “Chosen Images: A Decade of Jewish Feminism,” Bridges 1(Spring 1990) 57-67.

Blumfield, Chanita and Tikva Frymer/Kensky. “Breaking Glass: Power in the Jewish Community.” Hadassah Magazine 76 (Aug/Sept 1994) 24-26.

Cantarow, Ellen. “Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity in the Women’s Movement.” Middle East Report 18 (Sept/Oct. 1988) 38-43.

Chernin, Kim. “Feminist Consciousness Today: In the House of the Flame Bearers.” Tikkun 2 (July/Aug. 1987) 55-59.

Chernin, Kim. Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself. New York: Times Books, 1987.

Ciolkowski, Laura E. “A Question of Identity: Jewish Feminist Politics in the 1990s.” Response 61:2 (Fall 1993) 42-45.

Davidman, Lynn and Shelly Tenenbaum. Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

Fishman, Sylvia Barack, “The Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life,” in American Jewish Yearbook 1989. American Jewish Committee and JPS (1989) 23-62.

Friedman, Reena Sigman. “American Jewish Women: 1967-1991.” The Reporter: Women’s American ORT (Winter 1991) 10-14.

Friedman, Reena Sigman. “The Jewish Feminist Movement,” in Jewish Voluntary Organizations ed. Michael N. Dobkowski. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.

Friedman, Reena Sigman. “The Jewish Women’s Movement.” Jewish Education News 12 (Summer 1991) 26-7, 29.

Goodkin, Judy & Citron, Judith. Women in the Jewish Community: Reviews and Recommendations. London: Office of the Chief Rabbi, 1994.

Heschel, Susannah. “Women’s Studies.” Modern Judaism 10 (1990) 243-258.

Hirshan, Marjorie Schonhaut. “The Jewish Women’s Resource Center: Bringing Women Closer to Judaism and Judaism Closer to Women.” Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 12 (1990) 28+.

Iannone, Carol. “Sex & the Feminists.” Commentary 96 (Sept. 1993) 51-54.

Kaplan, Marian A. The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany: The Campaigns of the Judisher Frauenbund, 1904-38. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979.

Kaye Kantrowitz, Melanie. “Observations: The Next Step.” NWSA Journal 2 (Spring 1990) 236-244.

Klepfisz, Irena. “Di Mames, dos loshen/The mothers, the language: Feminism, Yidishkayt and the Politics of Memory.” Bridges 4 (Winter/Spring 1994) 12-47.

Kuzmack, Linda Gordon. Women’s Cause: The Jewish Woman’s Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933. Colombus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990.

Moses, Jennifer. “Women’s Lib.” Commentary 86 (1988) 8, 10.

Musleah, Rachel. “Jewish Feminist Scholarship.” Na’Amat Woman. (Nov/Dec 1993) 4-7.

_____. “Women Rabbis: Turning Newness Into Strength.” Na’amat Woman 4 (May/June 1994) 4-7.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin. “From our Heads and our Hearts: Connecting with Black Women.” Lillith 16 (Winter 1991) 13-15, 28.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin. “Why Feminism is Good for the Jews.” Na’Amat Woman (Sept/Oct 1991) 3-5, 24.

Rapaport, Nessa. “Jewish Feminism and the Future.” Hadassah (Jan 1993) 16+.

Rinn, Miriam. “Orthodox Feminism Arrives.” The Reporter: Women’s American ORT (Fall 1990) 6-8.

Rogow, Faith. “Why is this Decade Different from All Other Decades: A Look at the Rise of Jewish Lesbian Feminism.” Bridges 1 (Spring 1990) 67-79.

Roiphe, Anne. “The Jewish Family: A Feminist Perspective.” Tikkun 1 (1986) 70-75.

Schneider, Susan Weidman. “Feminist Philanthropy: Women Changing the World with Their Dollars.” Lilith 18 (Spring 1993) 14-17.

Schneider, Susan Weidman. “Jewish Women’s Philanthropy.” Lilith 18 (Winter 1993) 6-12, 29, 38-9.

Umansky, Ellen M. “Females, Feminists and Feminism: A Review of Recent Literature on Jewish Feminism and the Creation of Feminist Judaism.” Feminist Studies 14 (Summer 1988) 349-365.