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Woman’s Work

JL;DR SUMMARY Olga Litvak reviews "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies" by Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, which explores systemic gender issues within Jewish studies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish StudiesGender EqualitySexual HarassmentAcademic FieldsSteven M. CohenAcademic CultureWomen In AcademiaSusannah HeschelAjsSarah Imhoff

Places mentioned

Princeton, New Jersey, United States
"Princeton University Press 304 pp., $27.95"
Washington, United States
"members of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) received an email from its president, University of Washington historian Noam Pianko"
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
"was subsequently fired from his tenured position at Hebrew Union College"
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
"Barack Fishman, a professor emerita specializing in contemporary American Jewry at Brandeis"
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
"Susannah Heschel, a distinguished professor of Jewish studies and member of the religion department at Dartmouth College"
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
"Now, some four years later, Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, a professor of Religious studies who holds a chair in Jewish studies at Indiana University Bloomington"
New York City, New York, United States
"When Keren McGinity, a young sociologist of American Jewry, published an essay in New York Jewish Week titled American Jewrys #MeToo Problem"
Ithaca, New York, United States
"The Jewish Studies Program at Cornell, where I teach, is not a branch office or an affiliate of the AJS."
North Andover, Massachusetts, United States
"Sharoni is a professor of womens and gender studies at Merrimack College."
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