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  • Growing Up Below Sea Level

    A Kibbutz Childhood

    by Rachel Biale ...
    This beautifully written memoir is composed of linked stories about growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, when children spent most of their time, from birth on, in a Children’s House. This memoir starts with a Prologue drawn from the diaries of Rachel Biale’s mother and the letters her parents exchanged while her father served in the British army. With excerpts from these ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Aerograms Across the Ocean

    In August 1970, David Biale, a 21-year-old American Jewish student, arrived at Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel's Bet She'an Valley as a volunteer. There, he met Rachel Korati, nine days shy of her eighteenth birthday. They began an intense dialogue about how a secular Jew might be Jewish and what the role of Israel and kibbutz ought to be in modern Jewish life. They also found a common language in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and Jewish Law

    The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today

    by Rachel Biale ...
    How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • What Now?

    2-Minute Tips for Solving Common Parenting Challenges

    by Rachel Biale ...
    What Now? 2-Minute Tips for Solving Common Parenting Challenges offers practical, psychologically-sound, step-by-step parenting tips from birth to age ten. The tips are presented in a lively Q&A format. Each topic is covered in approx. 800 words - a 2-minute read, which is essential for today's over-extended, time-pressured parents. The book is organized chronologically, from infancy through ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Lost and Found

    by Rachel Biale ...
    Lost and Found: Historical NovelNOVEMBER 1940: a mysterious explosion sinks the Patria, anchored in the Haifa Harbor. On board are 2,500 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. The British Palestine Mandate authorities are ready to deport them. A four-year-old boy disappears while his parents and newborn brother are saved. What happened to him?Waving together a true story and imagined ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Read more

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  • Fairly Equal

    Lawyering the Feminist Revolution

    Series series A Feminist History Society Book
    An eyewitness account of the revolution in women’s rights under the law. ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Festivals

    A Guide to Their History and Observance

    Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month? Why do women cover their eyes when reciting the blessing over the Sabbath candles? How did the Seder originate? Does the Book of Esther, read on Purim, mirror any real historical events?Long considered a classic, The Jewish Festivals provides a rich and charming account ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • In the Beginning

    A Short History of the Hebrew Language

    by Joel Hoffman ...
    Decodes the long history of Hebrew and its influential place as the ancestor of many modern written languagesHebrew as a language is just over 3,000 years old, and the story of its alphabet is unique among the languages of the world. Hebrew set the stage for almost every modern alphabet, and was arguably the first written language simple enough for everyone, not just scribes, to learn, making it ... Read more

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  • Ellen Wilkinson

    From Red Suffragist to Government Minister

    by Paula Bartley ...
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    Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time.Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family, Wilkinson was involved in women's suffrage, helped found the British Communist Party, led the Labour Party's anti-fascist campaign, headed the iconic ... Read more

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  • Radical Happiness

    Moments of Collective Joy

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    Feminism, Activism and Media

    by K. Mendes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movement to suit local cultures and contexts and explores how social media organized, theorized and publicized this contemporary feminist campaign. ... Read more

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