Book
Educated and ignorant: ultraorthodox Jewish women and their world
Lynne Rienner Publishers • Boulder • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: El-Or, Tamar, Watzman, Haim.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This ethnography investigates the meaning of learning in the lives of ultraorthodox Jewish women. Presenting a vivid portrayal of the Gur Hasidic community in Israel, El-Or explores the relationship between women's literacy and their subordination. What she finds is a paradox: ultraorthodox women are taught to be ignorant, a role which they perform as only educated women can do. Preserving their social and emotional ties with their community, these women are at the same time able to observe their surrounding and even their own worlds as if from the 'ouside.' This duality creates the social and personal conditions that allow the women to accept their subordination and help to perpetuate it, even at the end of the twentieth century (p. 228).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Informants
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Observation in research
- Life history materials
- Cultural participation
- Cultural identity and pride
- Settlement patterns
- Conversation
- Public lectures
- Gender status
- Social relationships and groups
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Ethnosociology
- Education system
- Liberal arts education
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelis
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1985-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1990s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tamar El-Or ; translated by Haim Watzman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93013332
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Israelis