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Tamar El-Or is the foremost anthropologist working on the lives of religious Jewish women. . . . In exploring the spread of intensive Judaic studies among orthodox women as an institutional, social, and cultural phenomenon, she explores one of the most remarkable developments in contemporary Judaism.--Matti Bunzi University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign In this fascinating, provocative anthropological study, young orthodox Jewish women from Israel's Religious-Zionist sector are interviewed and observed at the Midrasha--women's study institute--of Bar Illan University as they endeavor to achieve educational parity with men.--Choice

In this fascinating, provocative anthropological study, young orthodox Jewish women from Israel's Religious-Zionist sector are interviewed and observed at the Midrasha--women's study institute--of Bar Illan University as they endeavor to achieve educational parity with men.--Choice Tamar El-Or is the foremost anthropologist working on the lives of religious Jewish women. . . . In exploring the spread of intensive Judaic studies among orthodox women as an institutional, social, and cultural phenomenon, she explores one of the most remarkable developments in contemporary Judaism.--Matti Bunzi University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Tamar El-Or is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her books include Educated and Ignorant: Ultra Orthodox Jewish Woman and Their World (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994).

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