Voices of the Matriarchs

Chava Weissler

1998

What does it mean to study women’s religion? How are we to define our subject matter? How are we to understand the relationship of the history of women’s religious life and practice to the history of particular religious traditions? This chapter explores these questions within the specific context of the religious life of Ashkenazic Jewish women in…

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Chava Weissler

b. 1947

Born in Washington, D.C., Chava Weissler is a professor of Jewish civilization at Lehigh University. A specialist in Jewish folklore, tradition, mysticism, tkhines, and women’s history, Weissler is also a translator and a recipient of the 1999 Jewish History Koret Book Award.

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