A lot, it turns out. “This was actually traditional clothing for high-society Jewish women until even the mid-20th century,” Efrat Assaf-Shapira, a curator of the museum’s vast collection of ...
In many Hasidic Jewish communities ... men and women but is expressed differently in each case. For women, modesty extends beyond clothing to include behaviors, speech, and, significantly ...
How did Jewish women negotiate religious tradition, gender and cultural norms to fashion lives for themselves as individuals and as family and community members in diverse societies? Readings from a ...
Uncovered: Women’s Roles, Mitzvot, and Sexuality in Jewish Law is primarily a halachic work. Its author, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, has spent decades immersed in what the rabbis have to ...
Museum of London Workers at a clothing factory in Stepney, owned by the Jewish Schneider family ... stunts such as having bands play in shops or women dressing in shop windows.