Jewish Women in Israel

8. Bibliography and Online References

On Women in Judaism:

Tamar Biale. Women and Jewish Law. 1986. Schocken.
Tamar Biale. Women and Jewish Law: the Essential Texts – their History and their Relevance for Today. 1995. Schocken.
Blu Greenberg. On Women and Judaism. 1986. Jewish Publication Society.
Michael Kaufman. The Woman in Jewish Law and Tradition. 1993. Jason Aronson.
Ellen Umansky (Ed.). Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality. 1992. Beacon.
Judith Plaskow. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective. 1991. Harper.

On Women in Israel:

Deborah Bernstein (Ed.). Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel. 1992. State University of New York.
Tamar Rapaport and Tamar El-Or (Eds.). Cultures of Womanhood in Israel. 1997. Women’s Studies International Forum.
Lesley Hazleton. Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the Myths. 1977. Simon and Schuster.
Alice Shalvi. Women in Israel. 1994. New Israel Fund pamphlet.
M. Raider, R. Katznelson Shazar et al (Eds.). The Plough Women: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine. 2002. Brandeis University.

General Online References

Bibliography:

http://www.brandeis.edu/hirjw/pdf/history.pdf
& http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/rl/gen-women.html

Hebrew Bibliography/Antiquity
http://popeye.cc.biu.ac.il/~barilm/bibfemik.html

Complete Webography - online documents, history, major issues:
http://www.jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/Internetresources/womens_studies.htm

Women in Judaism – Online Journal
http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/

http://www.hebrewhistory.org/factpapers/36women.html
Cursory view of Biblical women; women converts in the Roman period; Dona Gracia and Esther Kyra Handali in the Islamic Empire; bibliographical notes.

Jewish Women Writers
http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/journal/spring2002/documents/bitton.pdf

Women in the Bible
http://www.snunit.k12.il/nashim/

Articles:

David Instone Brewer. Jewish Women Divorcing their Husbands in Early Judaism (Papyrus Se'elim)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2399/3_92/56459936/p1/article.jhtml

Jewish Women's Archive (USA)
http://www.jwa.org/

Various articles and links
http://www.jewishpeople.net/jewishwives.html

Articles by an orthodox woman
http://beingjewish.com/kresel/

Resources Guide: Relationship Abuse
http://www.jewishwomen.org/resource.htm

Israel

Articles:

Amnesty International
Report on Trafficking of Women in Israel
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE150172000

Israel Ministry of Education
Gender Equality in Education [8 sections]
http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/Owl/English/Gender/Objectives/

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Professor Naomi Chazan. Women in Public Life. (1996, with 2003 update)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00ha0

CEDAW: Advancement in the Status of Women (2001)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0kdq0

CEDAW: Trafficking in Women (2001)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0kee0

Rochelle Furstenberg. Israeli Literature – on Women Writers
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00p30

Naomi Ragen. Various articles online
http://www.naomiragen.com/

Kibbutz:

Professor Judith Buber Agassi. Gender Equality: Theoretical lessons from the Israeli kibbutz [extensive bibliography] (1989)

Audrey Beth Stein. Sexual Equality on the Israeli Kibbutz (1996)
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~abstein/kibbutz/

Women in Judaism – Online Journal : Michal Palgi. Women in the Changing World of Kibbutz (1997)
http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/journal/vol1n1/v1n1palg.htm

Organizations:

Adva Center – updated reports online about gender and social justice in Israeli society
http://www.adva.org/new.html

Kidma – The Project for the Advancement of Women in Israel
http://kidma.haifa.ac.il/

Battered Women's site, Israel [Hebrew]
http://www.abusedwoman.co.il/

Combat Violence against Women (murder statistics)
http://www.no2violence.co.il/Statistics/Statistics010.htm