HBI Series on Jewish Women
The HBI Series on Jewish Women publishes a wide range of books about Jewish women and gender issues in diverse contexts. By offering fresh perspectives on Jewish women’s history, lives and experiences worldwide, the series aims to close a major gap in Jewish learning.
Books in the HBI Series on Jewish Women are appropriate for course adoption in Jewish studies, women’s studies, gender studies, history, religion and many other fields of study.
Authors may submit proposals to Series Editor Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, SJD.
For a complete list of publications, visit the Brandeis University Press website.
Newest Books
![photo of Chana Orloff in her studio](chana-orloff-book-jacket.jpeg)
Paula Birnbaum
![Drawing of a woman holding an apple in a garden](frankly-feminist-cover-copy.jpeg)
Edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough
![Dirshuni](../../images/bookcovers/10142021160120_500x500.jpeg)
Edited by Tamar Biala
![Bringing Down the Temple House: Engendering Tractate Yoma](../../images/bookcovers/10132021134822_500x500.jpeg)
Marjorie Lehman
![Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self](../../images/publications/marie.jpg)
Carole S. Kessner
![Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism](../../images/publications/ross003_500x500.jpg)
![Hadassah: An American Story](../../images/publications/04292021160323_500x500.jpg)
![Glikl: Memoirs, 1691-1719](../../images/bookcovers/glikl-memoirs.jpg)
Glikl bas Leib (annotated and with an introduction by Chava Turniansky; translated by Sarah Friedman)
![A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova](../../images/bookcovers/freeze-jewishwoman.jpg)
ChaeRan Y. Freeze (translated by Gregory L. Freeze)
![Book cover: "Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present.](../../images/publications/past/jewish-families-cover-340.jpg)
Edited by Joanna Beata Michlic
![Book Cover: Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families (on a yellow stripe). Paradoxes of a Social Revolution. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Editor. Cover Art is a collage of patterns, shapes, Hebrew text (including several small scrolls tucked into 2 pockets) and symbols (fish and a Hamsa), all in shades of orange, yellow and blue. 15 circles and fish hang on strings below the main part of this work. It is in the shape of a vest.](../../images/publications/past/love-marriage-735.jpg)
Edited by Sylvia Barack Fishman
![Book cover: Inbar Raveh. Feminist Rereadings of Rabbinic Literature. The artwork that covers the entire cover depicts a white goat against a painterly background in shades of gray, black, white and red. There are blue stripes over the goat's body.](../../images/publications/past/feminist-rereadings-340.jpg)
Inbar Raveh
![Book Cover: The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season. Marcia Falk. Cover artwork is a pastel drawing of apples growing on tree branches.](../../images/publications/past/days-between-340.jpg)
![Book Cover: Knish (in 3-dimensional yellow script letters). In Search of the Jewish Soul Food. Laura Silver. Background photograph of a baking sheet with knishes.](../../images/publications/past/knish-340.jpg)
Laura Silver