Tova Hartman

Tova Hartman (born 1957), scholar and social entrepreneur, is the Dean of Humanities at the Kiryat Ono Academic College.

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Tova Hartman

Biography

She was formerly Professor of Gender Studies and Education at Bar Ilan University,[1] specializing in gender and religion, and gender and psychology.

She is the author of a book on Jewish and Catholic mothers, titled Appropriately Subversive, as well as a book on the crossroads of Jewish Tradition and modern feminism, titled Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies in 2007.[2]

Hartman most recently authored Are You Not a Man Of God? Devotion, Betrayal and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition.

She is a founder of Kehillat Shira Hadasha, a congregation organized to increase women's participation and leadership within traditional Jewish prayer and halakha.[3][4][5]

She is the daughter of Rabbi Prof. David Hartman.

Published works
  • Hartman, T., Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions, Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-00886-3
  • Hartman, T. and Marmon, M., "Lived Regulations, Systemic Attributions Menstrual Separation and Ritual Immersion in the Experience of Orthodox Jewish Women." Gender & Society 18:3, pp. 389–408 (2004)

See also

References
  1. Rachel Silverman (February 15, 2007). "Where Do We Go From Here?". Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 2007-02-20.
  2. "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  3. Vernon Kurtz (March 12, 2009). "Creating a space for God's presence". Shalom Hartman Institute. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
  4. Barbara Sofer (February 1, 2007). "The Human Spirit: Who's afraid of Shira Hadasha?". JPost. Retrieved 2007-02-20.
  5. Ben Harris (February 14, 2007). "Feminist group marks progress, but not on the issue of agunot". JTA. Retrieved 2007-02-20.
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