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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Ilana M Blumberg; Ilana M Blumberg |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ilana M Blumberg |
ISBN: | 9780803224490 0803224494 |
OCLC Number: | 258770318 |
Notes: | Originally published: ©2007. "First Nebraska paperback printing: 2009"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xvi, 181 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Binah -- Houses of study -- If they be two -- Tree, light, fruit. |
Responsibility: | Ilana M. Blumberg. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"This is a poignant and perceptive account of how a highly educated Jewish woman managed to combine her extensive Jewish knowledge with her insights into English literature. Her journey toward mature awareness, so well described here, has many impediments and we are privileged to take this trip with her."-Morton I. Teicher, National Jewish Post & Opinion -- Morton I. Teicher * National Jewish Post & Opinion * "A book that deserves a serious readership: a memoir that reads like a poem, a voice that's intelligent, brave, passionate and conversant."-Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week * Jewish Week * "This book is a union of letters and texts no less magnetic; to enter Ilana Blumberg's houses of study is, invariably, to become ignited."-Lilith -- Ilana Kurshan * Lilith * "Tension wraps around the pages of Blumberg's memoir, an ardent intellectual autobiography by a woman in love with both Jewish texts and secular literature. . . . [H]er memoir elucidates . . . the passion for study no matter what a person's gender."-Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly * "In its originality of approach, vigor and beauty of style, and fierce honesty in naming and exploring uncharted territories, this book is a great contribution to women's studies, autobiography and memoir, and Jewish studies."-Mary Gordon, author of Final Payments and The Company of Women -- Mary Gordon "Ilana Blumberg captures the voice of a generation of religious Jewish women, in love with Judaism and in love with learning. Her book is the autobiography of the feminist era and its spiritual passions."-Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus -- Susannah Heschel Read more...

