Paula S Hyman

From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry 1906-1939

My Life As a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland

Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: Roles and Representations of Women

Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women

The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century

The Jews of Modern France

The Jews of Modern France

The Jewish Family: Myths and Reality

Rachel Adler

…In 1971, she published an article entitled "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman," in Davka magazine. This article was considered by historian Paula Hyman as one of the founding influences of the Jewish feminist movement.…

Paula Hyman

Paula Ellen Hyman (September 30, 1946 December 15, 2011) was the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and president of the...

Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson

Although the ideas of "tradition" and "modernity" may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers have ...

The Jews of Modern France (Jewish Communities in the Modern World) 1st (first) Edition by Hyman, Paula E. [1998]

Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: A-L

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective

The last decades have seen a growing debate over the status of women in contemporary Judaism. As the conditions of secular Western life have allowed women greater choice in their educational and vocational opportunities and society has begun to endorse female equality with men, dissatisfaction with ...

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective

The last decades have seen a growing debate over the status of women in contemporary Judaism. As the conditions of secular Western life have allowed women greater choice in their educational and vocational opportunities and society has begun to endorse female equality with men, dissatisfaction with ...

The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century

This wide-ranging book explores for the first time the impact of civil emancipation on a traditional Jewish population largely untouched by secular culture. Drawing on governmental sources, literature, memoirs, and communal records, Paula E. Hyman discusses the effects of modernization on Jews who l...

My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland (The Modern Jewish Experience)

"... vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read[s] like a novel." —Russian ReviewIn this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century Poland who broke wi...

The Jews of Modern France (Jewish Communities in the Modern World)

The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not consid...