researching women
It's wonderful to see how much is being written and discussed about Jewish women's experiences.
In this session, Deborah Stern talked about the role of women in the Reconstructionist movement. She pointed out some special programs at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College which promote studying these roles.
http://www.rrc.edu/ – click on library
Kolot: the Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studes http://www.kolot.org/
Ritualwell.org (ceremonies for Jewish living) http://www.ritualwell.org/ ( a project of Kolot)
Judith Pinnolis : Discovering Jewish women musicians : the role of library, archival and online resources.
Judith's goal was to confront the myth that Jewish women have not been involved in the early music scene in the United States. She focused on the lives of two female Jewish performers.
Julie Rosewald was an opera singer who was the cantorial soloist at Temple Emanu-el in San Francisco. As an opera singer, she toured the United States and Europe with several different opera companies from the 1860's to the 1880's or 90's. Among other early newspapers, Judith searched the American Jewess and found some references to Julie Rosewald saying that she had sung in the choir at Temple Emanu-el in San Francisco in 1896. She also coached other singers and encouraged women to take off their stays to learn to breath correctly and to wear the stays as loosely as possible.
Estelle Liebling was premiere vocalist for the John Philip Sousa's Band. She had over 1600 concerts with the band having to sing over the band without a microphone. When she stopped singing at age 50, she became a vocal coach of opera singers. Her students included Beverly Sills.
Judith has found names of over a hundred other female Jewish opera singers (not including other singers or performers). Clearly, Jewish women had been active as musical performers.
She has set up a website chronically "Contributions of Jewish Women to Music
and of Women to Jewish Music" www.jmwc.org/Women/women_index.html
Judith Rosenbaum presented "Jewish women and the feminist revolution: archiving history online" (from the Jewish Women's Archive)
The JWA invited activists to donate an object and to write something which explained its significance. Judith demonstrated the online exhibit that was created out that material. The online exhibit includes, texts, sound, and video. While they had a lot of really fascinating tidbits in their exhibit, I think they should have been more clear on their exhibit pages that this was a collection personal stories and recollections and not a scholary/edited work.
In this session, Deborah Stern talked about the role of women in the Reconstructionist movement. She pointed out some special programs at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College which promote studying these roles.
http://www.rrc.edu/ – click on library
Kolot: the Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studes http://www.kolot.org/
Ritualwell.org (ceremonies for Jewish living) http://www.ritualwell.org/ ( a project of Kolot)
Judith Pinnolis : Discovering Jewish women musicians : the role of library, archival and online resources.
Judith's goal was to confront the myth that Jewish women have not been involved in the early music scene in the United States. She focused on the lives of two female Jewish performers.
Julie Rosewald was an opera singer who was the cantorial soloist at Temple Emanu-el in San Francisco. As an opera singer, she toured the United States and Europe with several different opera companies from the 1860's to the 1880's or 90's. Among other early newspapers, Judith searched the American Jewess and found some references to Julie Rosewald saying that she had sung in the choir at Temple Emanu-el in San Francisco in 1896. She also coached other singers and encouraged women to take off their stays to learn to breath correctly and to wear the stays as loosely as possible.
Estelle Liebling was premiere vocalist for the John Philip Sousa's Band. She had over 1600 concerts with the band having to sing over the band without a microphone. When she stopped singing at age 50, she became a vocal coach of opera singers. Her students included Beverly Sills.
Judith has found names of over a hundred other female Jewish opera singers (not including other singers or performers). Clearly, Jewish women had been active as musical performers.
She has set up a website chronically "Contributions of Jewish Women to Music
and of Women to Jewish Music" www.jmwc.org/Women/women_index.html
Judith Rosenbaum presented "Jewish women and the feminist revolution: archiving history online" (from the Jewish Women's Archive)
The JWA invited activists to donate an object and to write something which explained its significance. Judith demonstrated the online exhibit that was created out that material. The online exhibit includes, texts, sound, and video. While they had a lot of really fascinating tidbits in their exhibit, I think they should have been more clear on their exhibit pages that this was a collection personal stories and recollections and not a scholary/edited work.
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