Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed forum for original scholarly and creative work on Jews and gender. Co-sponsored by the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Nashim publishes research, reviews, essays, poetry, and art.
In accordance with Nashim's interdisciplinary nature, each issue contains several articles focused on a central theme, usually with a distinguished feminist scholar serving as consulting editor. Issues published to date:
No. 1 (1998): Women and the Land of Israel
No. 2 (1999): Crossing into Modernity: Renegotiating Jewish Gender Identities
No. 3 (2000): Motherhood (consulting editor: Susan Sered)
No. 4 (2001): Women in Rabbinic Literature
No. 5 (2002): Feeding an Identity: Gender, Food, and Survival (consulting editor: Norma Baumel Joseph)
No. 6 (Fall 2003): Women, War and Peace in Jewish and Middle East Contexts (consulting editor: Alice Shalvi)
No. 7 (Spring 2004): Autobiography and Memoir (consulting editor: Gershon Bacon)
No. 8 (Fall 2004): Multiculturalism in the World of Jewish Women (with a symposium edited by Marla Brettschneider)
Nos. 9-10 (Spring-Fall 2005): Jewish Women's Spirituality (consulting editor: Vanessa L. Ochs)
No. 11 (Spring 2006): Yemenite Jewish Women (consulting editor: Nitza Druyan)
No. 12 (Fall 2006): Women's Health, Reproduction and Body Politics (consulting editor: Larissa Remennick)
no. 13 (Spring 2007): Women in the Economy (consulting editor: Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui)
no. 14 (Fall 2007): Jewish Women and the Visual Arts (consulting editors: Ruth Weisberg and Judith Margolis)
no. 15: (Spring 2008) Jewish Women and Books (consulting editor: Wendy Zierler)
Nashim editors:
Managing Editor: Deborah Greniman (nashim@schechter.ac.il)
Academic Editor: Prof. Renée Levine Melammed (rlm@schechter.ac.il)
Art Editor: Judith Margolis (judith@judithmargolis.com)
Editorial Board: Elisheva Baumgarten, Marc Brettler, Sylvia Barack-Fishman, David Golinkin, Deborah Greniman, Renée Levine Melammed, Shulamit Reinharz, Alice Shalvi
