Womens Passover Companion: Women's Reflections on the Festival of Freedom - Softcover

Edited By Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld Tara Mohr And Catherine Spector

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580232310 ISBN 13: 9781580232319

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 2007

Synopsis

A powerful―and empowering―gathering of women’s voices transmitting
Judaism’s Passover legacy to the next generation.

The Women’s Passover Companion offers an in-depth examination of women’s relationships to Passover as well as the roots and meanings of women’s seders. This groundbreaking collection captures the voices of Jewish women―rabbis, scholars, activists, political leaders and artists―who engage in a provocative conversation about the themes of the Exodus and exile, oppression and liberation, history and memory, as they relate to contemporary women’s lives.

Whether seeking new insights into the text and traditions of Passover or learning about women’s seders for the first time, both women and men will find this collection an inspiring introduction to the Passover season and an eye-opening exploration of questions central to Jewish women, to Passover and to Judaism itself.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book is a powerful- and empowering- gathering of women's voices transmitting Judaism's Passover legacy to the next generation. "The Women's Passover Companion" offers an in-depth examination of women's relationships to Passover as well as the roots and meanings of women's seders. This groundbreaking collection captures the voices of Jewish women - rabbis, scholars, activists, political leaders and artists - who engage in a provocative conversation about the themes of the Exodus and exile, oppression and liberation, history and memory, as they relate to contemporary women's lives. Whether seeking new insights into the text and traditions of Passover or learning about women's seders for the first time, both women and men will find this collection an inspiring introduction to the Passover season and an eye-opening exploration of questions central to Jewish women, to Passover and to Judaism itself.

About the Author:

Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Tara Mohr and Catherine Spector first worked together as organizers of Jewish Women at Yale and as leaders of Yale University's beloved and inspiring women's seder. Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld is currently the associate dean for student life at the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Tara Mohr is currently an MBA candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, focusing her studies on social entrepreneurship. Catherine Spector is currently a lawyer in Chicago and was, during college, part of the steering committee for Yale's two national conferences on Jewish women.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1580232310
• ISBN 13: 9781580232319
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Tara Mohr, Catherine Spector