Limmud Michigan 2019

While the history of the American women’s movement of the 1960s and 70s is generally recounted with little reference to Jewish identity, some observers note that most leading feminists of that era seem to have been Jewish.  Indeed, although it’s easy to locate influential Jewish feminists, few of them emphasized their Jewish identity at the time. This session will look at the erasure of Jewish identity both by historians and by those who sought to join what they saw as a universal struggle for liberation. It will then take up the question of what might be learned if we began to look at the history of feminism through a Jewish lens.