01784 a2200337 4500 1138952982 20250317100405.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138952980 Taylor & Francis GBP 45.99 BB 01 eng JBSR thema QRJF thema GTM thema QRA thema 5PGJ bisac JFSR1 bic HRJS bic GTB bic HRA bic REL040040 bisac SOC053000 bisac 296.68082 bisac Ilan Fuchs Jewish Women's Torah Study Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity 1 Oxford Routledge 20150723 284 p One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection. The contemporary debate regarding women’s Torah study first emerged in the second half of the 19th century. As women’s status in general society changed, offering increased legal rights and opportunities for education, a debate on the need to change women’s participation in Torah study emerged. Orthodoxy was faced with the question: which parts, if any, of modernity should be integrated into Halacha? Exemplifying the entire array of Orthodox responses to modernity, this book is a valuable addition to the scholarship of Judaism in the modern era and will be of interest to students and scholars of Religion, Gender Studies and Jewish Studies. 1643 1643