Yehudit rotem biography of barack

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,The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.

Until the mid-1980s, modern Hebrew literature was dominated by men.

There were some fine women novelists in Israel, but their works were generally considered minor. Veteran author, Amalia Kahana- Carmon, once said, “Just as Jewish women were exiled to the balcony of the synagogue, Israeli women novelists were relegated to the peripheries of Israeli literature.”

But in the last two decades, a revolution has been taking place, which has affected Orthodox women writers.

Yehudit Rotem, a mother of seven, eventually left the ultra-Orthodox world and became a successful author.

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Judith Rotem, 81, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Hungary, the eldest of four daughters.

Director, The Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, The Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Professor in Holocaust Research.

US Ambassador to Israel Thomas R. Nides will travel to Washington, DC on July 14th to take part in the official visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the.

Female writers have come into their own. In fact, they might even be perceived as dominating Israeli literature today. Their artistic outpouring is a consequence of socio psychological changes within the country.

Shifting Tides

From its beginnings in the 19th century, Hebrew literature struggled with collective issues, revolving around the fate of the Jewish people.

Indeed, literature was a primary force in crystallizing the Zionis