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Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century. NY: Free Press, 1997.

Antonelli, Judith S. In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah. NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996.

Antonelli, Judith S. Torah and Feminism. NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995.

Atkinson, Kenneth. Queen Salome: Jerusalem's Warrior Monarch of the First Century B.C.E. Mcfarland, 2012.

Auerbach, David. Halichot Beitah. Jerusalem: Machon Sharei Ziv, 1983.

Balka, Christie and Andy Rose, eds. Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Baskin, Judith, ed. Jewish Women in Historical Perspective. MI: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Baskin, Judith R., ed. Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. MI: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Berkovits, Eliezer. Jewish Women in Time and Torah. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House, 1990.

Biale, Rachel. Women and Jewish Law: An Exploration of Women's Issues in Halakhic Sources. NY: Schocken, 1984.

Brayer, Menachem M. The Jewish Woman in Rabbinic Literature. A Psychohistorical Perspective. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1986.

Cantor, Aviva. Jewish Women/Jewish Men: The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life. NY: Harper Collins, 1995.

Carnay, Janet, and others. The Jewish Woman's Awareness Guide. NY: BIblio Press, 1992.

Caspi, Mishael Maswari, and Deborah Lipstadt. Daughters of Yemen. Edited and translated by Mishael Caspi. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.

Davidman, Lynn and Shelly Tanenbaum, eds. Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies. CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

Davidman, Lynn. Tradition in a Rootless World. Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism. CA: University of California Press, 1991.

Elwell, Sue Levi. Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives. OR: Wipf and Stock, 2013.

Feingold, Henry L., gen. ed. The Jewish People in America. MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schussler. But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation. MA: Beacon Press, 1992.

Fishman, Sylvia Barack. A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community. NY: Free Press, 1993.

Frankiel, Tamar. Voice of Sarah: Feminine Spirituality and Traditional Judaism. CA: Harper Collins, 1990.

Friedman, Manis. Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? Reclaiming intimacy, modesty, and sexuality. Edited by Jena Morris Breningstall. San Francisco: Harper, 1990.

Ghatan, H.E. Yedidia. The Invaluable Pearl: The Unique Status of Women in Judaism. New York: Bloch, 1986.

Glenn, Susan Anita. Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Greenberg, Blu. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household. NK: Simon and Schuster, 1983.

Greenberg, Blu. On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition. PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1981.

Gurock, Jeffrey S. and Marc Lee Raphael, eds. An Inventory of Promises: Essays on American Jewish History in Honor of Moses Rischin. NY: Carlson, 1995.

Heinze, Andrew. Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the Search for American Identity. NY: New York University Press, 1990.

Hellerstein, Kathryn. A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987. CA: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Henry, Sondra and Emily Taitz. Written Out of History: Our Jewish Foremothers. NY: Biblio Press, 1990.

Heschel, Susannah. On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader. NY: Schocken, 1983.

Hyman, Naomi Mara. Biblical Women in the Midrash: A Sourcebook. NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997.

Hymen, Paula E., and Deborah Dash Moore. Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Routledge, 1997.

Hyman, Paula. Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: Roles and Representations of Women. WA: University of Washington Press, 1995.

Joselit, Jenna Weissman. The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880- 1950. NY: Hill and Wang, 1994.

Kamel, Rose Yalow. Aggravating the Conscience: Jewish-American Literary Mothers in the Promised Land. NY: P. Lang, 1988.

Kates, Judith, and Gail Twersky Reimer, eds. Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story. NY: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Kaufman, Deborah Renee. Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women. NJ.: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Kessner, Carole S., ed. The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals. NY: New York University Press, 1994.

Koltun, Elizabeth, ed. The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives. NY: Schocken, 1976.

Kuzmack, Linda Gordon. Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933.OH: Ohio State University, 1990.

Lichtenstein, Diane. Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers. IN: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Marcus, Jacob R. The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980. NY: Ktav, 1981.

Marcus, Jacob R. The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History. NY: Ktav; Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1981.

Meyers, Carol. Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context. London: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Ochs, Vanessa L. Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey into the Sacred. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Orenstein, Walter. Letters to my Daughter: A Father Writes about Torah and the Jewish Woman. NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996.

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. Feminist Revision and the Bible. London: Blackwell Publishers, 1993.

Plaskow, Judith. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective. CA: Harper & Row, 1990.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin. Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America. NY: Crown Publishing Group, 1991.

Rogow, Faith. Gone to Another Meeting: The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893- 1993. AL: University of Alabama Press, 1993.

Rotem, Yehudit. Distant Sisters: The Women I Left Behind. PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1997.

Rudavsky, T.M., ed. Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Traditions. NY: New York University Press, 1995.

Sacks, Maurie, ed. Active Voices: Women in Jewish Culture. IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Schneider, Susan Weidman. Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Shapiro, Sarah, ed. More of Our Lives: An Anthology of Jewish Women's Writings. MI: Targum Press Inc., 1991.

Shapiro, Sarah, ed. More of Our Lives: An anthology of Jewish Women's Writings. MI: Targum Press Inc., 1993.

Shepherd, Naomi. A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals. MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Steinsaltz, Adin. Biblical Images. Men and Women of the Book. Basic Books, 1984.

Taitz, Emily, Sondra Henry, Cheryl Tallan. The JPS Guide to Jewish Women. PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 2003.

Umansky, Ellen M, and Dianne Ashton, eds. Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Wagenknecht, Edward. Daughters of the Covenant: Portraits of Six Jewish Women. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983.

Wegner, Judith Romney. Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Weinberg, Sidney Stahl. The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women. NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Wolowelsky, Joel B. Women, Jewish Law, and Modernity: New Opportunities in a Post-Feminist Age. NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 1997.