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From the wise women of Israel : folklore and memoirs / compiled by Doris B. Gold and Lisa Stein.

New York : Biblio Press, [1993]

Jews -- Folklore

Jewish legends.

Jewish women -- Biography

xix, 142 p. ; 21 cm.

Preface / Doris B. Gold, Lisa Stein -- Introduction: Prophecy equals wisdom : women in the Biblical tradition / Livia Bitton-Jackson -- Part 1. Folklore: Lilith ; Skotsl Kumt: Skotsl's here ; About Beruriah ; The most precious thing in the world ; The clever carver ; A woman of valor saves from death ; The fisherman's daughter ; An offspring's answer ; The innkeeper's clever daughter ; King Solomon and Queen Keshira ; Vashti ; Job's novella ; The clever wife ; Some tales of Sendebar. -- Part 2. Memoirs: Gluckel's missing Jew / Gluckel of Hameln ; The debate / Ernestine L. Rose ; Justice! justice! / Emma Goldman ; Votes for women / Hannah Trager ; Hunger / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Two encounters / Rebekah Kohut ; Honeymoon and conflicts / Elizabeth G. Stern (Leah Morton) ; I fight for my mother 1928-1932 / Kim Chernin ; Bobbe and us / Faye Moskowitz ; The strike / Sophie Ruskay ; The knipple / Sophie Trupin ; Let God worry a little bit / Gertrude Berg ; Four homes in one year / Marie Jastrow ; My story / Rachel Bella Calof ; Sisters / Golda Meir ; Glimpses of grandmothers / Sydelle Kramer, Jenny Masur ; Fear Berlin: 1938 / Liselotte

(cont) Bendix Stern ; Alicia / Alice A. Appleman-Jurman ; My mother's search / Samuel Chotzinoff ; Table talk / Edna Ferber.

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