| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Pamela S. Nadell. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889–1985. Boston, Mass.: Beacon. 1998. Pp. xiii, 300. $30.00.

Pamela S. Nadell vividly narrates the provocative story of U.S. Jewish women's ordination. The story begins in the late nineteenth century, when U.S. Jewish women began publicly voicing a desire for ordination. It concludes a century later, when, in the 1970s and 1980s, women were ordained as Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative rabbis. The backdrop for the story includes American women's changing roles and American Judaism's adaptation to modernism. Nadell has compiled fragments of information that scholars of American Jewish history likely know into a chronicle made compelling by the multiple brief biographies of women who fought for the right to be ordained as rabbis. These individuals' stories create the larger narrative that "the women who wanted to be rabbis and their supporters invented over and over again . . . to prove that women were worthy . . . capable . . . serious, that they could learn, and . . . should use their knowledge to become rabbis, teachers, and preachers" (p. xiii). . . .

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