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To help you quickly find reading that’s sure to stimulate lively conversations and rich learning, the staff of The Posen Library has created Reader’s Guides on a range of topics.

These guides include entries that can be found in either the print version of The Posen Library or on the digital version, The Posen Digital Library (PDL)*, and have been created for general reader and discussion groups, as well as for students, educators, and librarians.

Each guide identifies six to eight selections related to its topic and offers questions to help readers dive deeper into the content and relate the material to their own experiences.

Available now for reading online or for download:
(To download the Reader's Guide, please click on the title or the cover on the right.)

Women: What Does It Mean to Be a Jewish Woman Today? A Guide for Readers With texts and artwork from North Africa, Mexico, the US, and Europe, this reader’s guide highlights notable and everyday awakenings of Jewish women of all ages, from the last two centuries. Reflect on your own experiences as a woman or the women in your life as you engage with themes related to expanding gender roles, risk and discovery, and feelings of belonging or outsiderness in relation to oneself, to other women, and to other Jews.

Please return to this page throughout 2021 for Reader’s Guides on:

• Confronting Crisis, Taking Action
• Women Making Art and History
• Community

* The Posen Digital Library (PDL) — The selections in the Posen Digital Library, curated by leading scholars of Jewish studies, will appeal to anyone interested in discovering Jewish history, biographies, fiction, nonfiction, religious and political writings, memoirs, painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, cultural artifacts, and everyday objects. Access to the PDL is free. All you have to do is register.