Exhibit: Women of Valor

Overview

Early Influences

Establishing a Reputation

"The Maiden in the Temple"

Breaking Down Barriers

Career of a Lady Preacher

The First Woman Rabbi?

Jewish Women's Congress

Paradoxical Positions

Marriage and New Directions

Later Years

Legacy

 

Timeline

Bibliography

Artifacts Alphabetically

Artifacts Sorted by Source

 

Bibliography for Ray Frank Exhibit

Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America. New York: Schocken Books, 1997.
 

Brekus, Catherine. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
 

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Clar, Reva and William M. Kramer. "The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West: The Adventurous Life of Ray Frank in Nevada, California and the Northwest." Western States Jewish History, 28, no. 2 (1986): 99-111, 223-236, 336-351.

Danziger, C.A. "Ray Frank." The American Jewess, April 1898: 19-21.

Droker, Howard A. "A Coat of Many Colors: The History of Seattle's Jewish Community." Portage, 4, no. 2 (Spring 1983): 4-9.
 

Frank, Ray. "Prayer" and "Woman in the Synagogue." In Papers of the Jewish Women's Congress. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1894.
 

Goldman, Karla. Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
 

Gradwohl, Rebecca J. "The Jewess in San Francisco." The American Jewess, October 1896: 10-12.
 

Herman, Felicia, "From Priestess to Hostess: Sisterhoods of Personal Service in New York City, 1887-1936," in Women in American Judaism: Historical Perspectives, ed. Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, forthcoming July 2001.
 

Hirsch, Emil G. "Woman in the Pulpit." The Reform Advocate, November 11, 1893: 301-302.
   

"In Woman's Wake." The American Jewess, December 1896: 141-142.
 

"Jewesses of To-Day: Ray Frank, the Jewish Lady Preacher." Israel: The Jewish Magazine, April 1899: 23.
 

Kuzmack, Linda Gordon. Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States 1881-1933. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
 

Litman, Simon. Ray Frank Litman: A Memoir. New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1957.
 

Marcus, Jacob Rader, ed.. The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History. New York: Ktav, 1981.
 

-------. United States Jewry 1776-1985. Vol. II. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
 

Nadell, Pamela S. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination 1889-1985. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
 

Noll, William T. "Women as Clergy and Laity in the Nineteenth-Century Methodist Protestant Church. Methodist History, 15, no. 2 (1977): 107-121.
 

Rischin, Moses and John Livingston, eds. Jews of the American West. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
 

Solberg, Winton U. "The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois." Religion and American Culture, 2, no. 2 (1992): 215-245.
 

Stern, Norton B. "The Jewish Community of a Nevada Mining Town." Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly, 15, no. 1 (1982): 48-78.
 

"Woman in the Synagogue." The Reform Advocate, February 20, 1897: 7-10; February 27, 1897: 24-25.
 

Zikmund, Barbara Brown. "Women and Ordination." In In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing, ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether. HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.
 


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For a bibliography: Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Ray Frank - Bibliography." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/frank/bib.html>.

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