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Despite gender restrictions, Jewish women played central roles as religious leaders in the early modern period. Meet the female leader of one of the most controversial cults in Jewish history.
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Brno, Holy Roman Empire (Brno, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1771
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Jewish Street in Amsterdam is one of the many landscapes that Tina Blau painted in her career. It is painted in the style of Austrian Stimmungsimpressionismus (atmospheric impressionism), which was…
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Tina Blau
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1875–1876
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1902
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
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Ira Jan
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1914
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This article was published in the German-language daily Bosnische Post on December 17, 1916, in response to Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska’s article “Die sudslavische Frau in der Politik” (The South…
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Laura Papo
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Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1916
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The women’s prayer section depicted in this painting gives a rare glimpse into the ways that women have asserted their agency and voices even in gender-segregated spaces.
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Maurycy Gottlieb
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1878
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One of them sits by the rivers of the East
And her eye reflects the innocent God of peace;
And the other sits by the rivers of the West
And dreams a dream.
And in the evenings of good will if thou…
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Avigdor Hameiri
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Chapter XIII. Judaism
The explanation is simple. People love in others the qualities they would like to have but do not actually have in any great degree; so also we hate in others only what we do not…
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Otto Weininger
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1903
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Dear Sir, [ . . . ]
We can talk about a Jewish racial or religious sentiment, but this is in perfect harmony with the Jews’ Hungarian national sentiment, which is not a patriotic slogan but a very…
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József Patai
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1914
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Although he himself would not recite “for the sake of the unification,” in keeping with the ruling of the Gaon—the Noda bi-Yehudah [R. Ezekiel Landau]—he was occasionally jealous of those who say it.…
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Simon Sofer
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Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870