In her book “The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty”, which came out in English this year by de Gruyter.
In her conversation with Dóra Pataricza Rachel, Rachel Elior shows the devastating effects of the traditional Jewish prohibition of women learning to read. Depriving women of education meant a tremendous loss of creativity for the Jews. Keeping women illiterate was a means for Jewish men to subjugate them, for women it meant a form of slavery. First attempts to overcome this subjugation were made only at the end of the 19th century. Some women still did not achieve full equality, to this day in certain orthodox Jewish communities women are prohibited to get an education.
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