Women’s Rights and Gender Roles

Seder Plate by Harriete Estel Berman

A feminist Passover custom

From Our Holdings

The Artist and the Scientist

On the Berlin based sisters Gertrud and Margarete Zuelzer. A project as part of a Year of Voluntary Service in Culture (FSJ Kultur)

Online Feature
2022

“Hörmahl:” A Feast for the Ears

Dinner with Lina Morgen­stern, Julie Elias, Rahel Varn­hagen and Fromet Mendels­sohn, in German

Podcast
2021/22

An Unequivocal Zest for Debate

Sharon Adler on the importance to exhibit women’s work and their impact

Interview
2021

LGBTQI+ & Judaism

An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann

Essay
2021

“No, I Want Dr. O.”

Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12)

Online Feature
2021

Bread and Roses

On International Women’s Day, Christina Hecht takes a look at various archives

Online Feature
2019

The Dress of the Unfaithful Wife

Talk with Andi LaVine Arnovitz, Amy K. Milligan, and Emily D. Bilski on the role of women in religious Judaism

Audio Recording
9 May 2017

All Sorts of Stories

The actor Johanna Wokalek reads from Bertha Pappenheim’s German translation of the Maase book, in German

Audio Recording
21 Nov 2016

JMB Journal 11: Women

Publication
2014

What’s the story with women rabbis?

What role do gender themes play in Judaism?

Question of the Month
2013

Quasicrystals

A talk about Jewish questions and the lives of women in Eva Menasses novel

Book Review
2013

The Long Night of Tikkun

or what we can learn from loving women

Essay
May 2013

The Diary of Gertrud Bleichröder

Notes from 1988, from the series Zeitzeugnisse aus dem Jüdischen Museum Berlin, in German

Publication
2002