This is a pioneering work on what it means to “engender” Jewish tradition—how women’s full inclusion can and must transform our understanding and practice of Jewish law, prayer, and marriage. Adler’s
Winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award—the summation of a life's work by a mother of Jewish feminist theology How can women's full participation transform Jewish law, prayer, sexuali
This update of a beautifully written ethnography on Yucatecan migrants in Dallas, TX, is a “best-of” in Allyn & Bacon's New Immigrants Series. Through fascinating vignettes and case studies, th
Polly Adler's "house" -- the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title -- was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorio