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Pamela Nadell. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889–1985. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. xiii, 300 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2003

Deborah Dash Moore
Deborah Dash Moore
Affiliation:
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York
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Pamela Nadell begins her history of “women who would have, if they could have, become rabbis” (p. x) with an acknowledgment “that uncovering women's history remains a political enterprise” (p. 13). Surprised to discover so many predecessors to today's female rabbis, Nadell enthusiastically traces the repetitive and discouraging history of arguments and efforts by diverse women to enter the rabbinate.

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AJS Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , October 2002 , pp. 401 - 402
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© 2002 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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