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Article: The JPS Guide to Jewish women: 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E.(Jewish Women)(Book Review)
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
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- January 1, 2004
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Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, & Cheryl Tallan, THE JPS GUIDE TO JEWISH WOMEN: 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2003. 354p. illus. bibl. index. pap., $25.00, ISBN 0-8276-0752-0.
"I would urge Jewish women to take up the study of Jewish history ... and begin to take back their heroines," Gerda Lerner told a reporter for the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California in an interview about Lerner's essay collection Why History Matters: Life and Thought (Oxford University Press, 1997). The JPS Guide offers those who would like to do just that--along with everyone else interested in Jewish women's history--an excellent tool for exploring a rich ...