Portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible / Susan Niditch -- Jewish women in the Diaspora world of late antiquity / Ross S. Kraemer -- The image and status of women in classical Rabbinic Judaism / Judith Romney Wegner -- Jewish women in the Middle Ages / Judith R. Baskin -- Sephardi women in the medieval and early modern periods / Renée Levine Melammed -- Italian Jewish women / Howard Adelman -- Prayers in Yiddish and the religious world of Ashkenazic women / Chava Weissler -- Emancipation through intermarriage in Old Berlin / Deborah Hertz -- Tradition and transition : Jewish women in imperial Germany / Marion A. Kaplan -- Gender and the immigrant Jewish experience in the United States / Paula E. Hyman.

Women and the holocaust : a reconsideration of research / Joan Ringelheim -- Spiritual expressions : Jewish women's religious lives in the twentieth-century United States / Ellen M. Umansky.