The PERFECT Gift for Every Woman, from bat mitzvah to graduation to "just because."
This book represents the confluence of two major areas of study---women's history and Jewish history. The two have not always belonged to each other. Gerda Lerner (one of the fifty) has said, "Had I been a boy and studied Talmud, I would have learned Jewish histtory in a positive way...I would have studied that mysterious mental construct whch held the community together for all these persecuted millennia. I was a girld and the lifeline of Jewish learning (Talmud, Mishna, Midrash, was out of my reach...
