Book
Educated and ignorant: ultraorthodox Jewish women and their world
Lynne Rienner Publishers • Boulder • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: El-Or, Tamar, Watzman, Haim.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Sociologist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field Date
- 1985-1988
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1900-1990s
- Coverage Place
- Israel
- Notes
- Tamar El-Or ; translated by Haim Watzman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index
- LCCN
- 93013332
- LCSH
- Israelis