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Article: Women Who Would be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination 1889-1985.(Review)
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- Sociology of Religion
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- September 22, 2001
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Women Who Would be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination 1889-1985, by PAMELA S. NADELL. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998, 300 pp., $30.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paper).
Starting with a Purim story published on the front page of Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent in 1889, which asked "Could not -- our women -- be -- ministers?," this book fleshes out the long road to the rabbinate for women, digging into such obscure sources as newspaper accounts, conference proceedings, as well as plans that did not reach fruition, seminary correspondence and minutes of committee meetings, to show that women's ambition to become rabbis and their de facto practice as Jewish clergy long ...