PRESS RELEASE Toronto, February 12, 2016 Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal

We are delighted to announce the electronic publication of the new issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. The journal can be accessed at http://www.womeninjudaism.org

Vol. 12, No 1 (2015)
Table of Contents

Articles
“I Thought I Could Endure Him But Now I Cannot” – Gendered Sensory Landscapes in MKetubot 7.7-10 and Parallels
Natalie C. Polzer
Jewish Women and Positive Time-bound Commandments: Reconsidering the Rabbinic Texts
Anat Israeli
Elderly Swedish Jewish Men and Egalitarianism: A Narrative Study
Elisabeth Punzi

Biographical Essays
Chava Rosenfarb’s Early Life Writing: “Bergen-Belsen Diary, 1945”
Ruth Panofsky
Home and the Female Scholar: Re-visiting the Salamans’ Archives
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

Book Reviews by Rachel E. Silverman, Rachel Adelman, Jennifer Lander, Susan Landau-Chark, Rebecca K. Scheckler, Nitza Keren, David B. Levy, Beverley Chalmers, and Merle Carrus.

Poetry Review Essays
The Fevered World: A Poetry Review Essay
Edith Covensky

Memoirs
Dreaming of Mashiach
Ricky Rapoport Friesem

Contact information:
Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal
628-800 Steeles Ave. West
Thornhill, Ontario L4J 7L2 Canada
Tel: 416-995-0599
E-mail: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca
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