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Why did none of her literary characters make the same choice? Perhaps because in modern
Ortodoxy there is a place for women.
Kreytman perhaps wanted to show that through some of the feminist changes taking hold within
modern Orthodoxy at the beginning of the XX century there is a positive chance can take place in the
Orthodox community. A wider perspective of the web of resistance among women in conservative
religious traditions was created. Much of this progress was later destroyed by the Nazis during the
Holcaust, and today new women in different Hassidic communities continue to fight, to learn; to
discover how to change their own world.
Keywords: Women, Jewish , Kreytman, Tradition, Modernity
Agnieszka ILWICKA‐SHEPPARD
Universtiy of Wrocław, Poland
agailwicka@interia.pl
Notes
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Hyman, Paula E. “Feminist Studies and Mondern Jewish History” (Feminist Perspectives on
Jewish Studies, ed. by Davidman Lynn and Tenenbaum Shelly). Yale: Yale University, 1994, 120‐
140
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Frymek‐Kensky, Tikva. ”The Bible and Women’s Studies” (Feminist Perspectives on Jewish
Studies, ed. by Davidman Lynn and Tenenbaum Shelly). Yale: Yale University, 1994, 17
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Singer, Israel I, Fun velt vos is nishto mer. New York: Farlag, 1946, 33
4
Norich, Anita. Afterword to The Dance with Demons, by Esther Kreitman, 299‐318, London 2008
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It is also worth to mention that according to Maurice Carr memoirs I.B. Singer called his older
sister as a “Hassid in the skirt”; see: Carr, Maurice “Kadish Mayn Muter Ester Kreytman.” Loshn un
Lebn 173 (June 1954): 9
6
Stavans, Ilan. Introduction to Deborah, by Esther Kreitman,v‐x, London 2004, vii
7
Singer, Israel I, Fun velt vos is nishto mer. New York: Farlag, 1946, 33
8
Miller, Nancy K. The poetics of gender. Chicago 1986, 220
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Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar Susan. The Madwoman in the Attic.The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth‐Century Literary Imagination. Yale: Yale University, 2000, 86
10
Israel‐Cohen, Yael. Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism: Resistance, Identity, and
Religious Change in Israel. Israel:Brill, 2012, 198
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