Houses of Study
A Jewish Woman Among Books

By Ilana M. Blumberg

To learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. This was the lesson of the culture of the Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which Ilana Blumberg was educated. Her childhood was immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic texts along with American biographies and novels and as she grew into womanhood wondered if the two literatures suddenly represented mutually exclusive possibilities for life. Blumberg's memoir explores how a Jewish woman's life was shaped by a passion for learning and a rare look into the life of modern Orthodoxy.

Hardcover.

Published by University of Nebraska Press.