PRESS RELEASE Toronto, January 28, 2008 Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Volume 4, No. 2, (Fall 2007) http://www.womeninjudaism.org
We are delighted to announce the electronic publication of a new issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. The journal can be accessed at http://www.womeninjudaism.org This is the first multidisciplinary refereed periodical solely dedicated to gender-related issues in Judaism. The issue features: ARTICLES: "Do Not Reject Your Mother's Teaching?!" - The Function of Micah's Mother in Judges 17 Heidi M. Szpek The Frankfurt a.M. Memorbuch: Gender Roles in the Jewish Community Institutions Tzvia Koren-Loeb The Writer as Witness: Latin American Jewish Women's Testimonio in the Works of Marjorie Agos?n, Sonia Guralnik, Alicia Kozameh and Alicia Partnoy Benay Blend AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Hilda Geiringer: A Pioneer of Applied Mathematics and a Woman ahead of her Time Was Saved from Fascism by Turkey Arnold Reisman BOOK REVIEWS by Justin Jaron Lewis, Nathan P. Devir, Susan Landau-Chark, Albrecht Classen, Adam Stewart, Walter E. Brown, Sara L. Kimble, Amy Tziporah Karp, Helen Frink, Shayna Sheinfeld, Sandra Dillon, Beth Dwoskin, Andrea Eidinger, Chris Chan, Melissa Faulkner, Rebecca Davis, Benay Blend, Sara Rofofsky Marcus, and Azila Talit Reisenberger. FILM REVIEWS by David A. Salomon and Batya Weinbaum. FICTION (SHORT STORIES AND POETRY) by Lenore Weiss, Kim Ben-Porat, Kate Mende-Fridkis, Renee Friedman, Miriam Budner, Carol Schwalberg, Sandra Hurtes, Ellen Geist, Norma Anapol, Shawne Steiger, Adam Jeffries Schwartz, I.B. (Bunny) Iskov, Julie Phelan, Renee von Paschen, Tia Pliskow, Felice Myriam Kahn Ziskin, Marjorie Deiter Keyishian, Leah Shelleda, Dori Appel and Lenore Weiss. Click on this link to access the new issue: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/issue/current Contact information: Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 246 1054 Centre St. Thornhill, Ontario L4J 8E5 Canada Tel: (905) 764-2578 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org

