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A review by lizshayne
On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition by Blu Greenberg
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
If I can't rate Ross, how could I possible rate Greenberg?
This book is complicated for me, first because it's about 50 years old and vacillates wildly between the prophetic and the prosaic. Sometimes I want to yell her points from the rooftops. Sometimes they make me want to howl.
What is, I think, most interesting to me is how the deepest questions that animate Ross are just...uninteresting to Greenberg. Of course Judaism isn't supposed to be misogynist, now go fix the divorce system. Gett over it.
Greenberg is at her best when she's grappling with her own journey and recognizing that her writing is an attempt to cultivate the produce of meaning. Like a tomato. She's most frustrating when she writes like she has already found it. (Like Denethor eating a tomato. Okay, not that bad. Nothing is that bad. But you get the idea.)
This book is complicated for me, first because it's about 50 years old and vacillates wildly between the prophetic and the prosaic. Sometimes I want to yell her points from the rooftops. Sometimes they make me want to howl.
What is, I think, most interesting to me is how the deepest questions that animate Ross are just...uninteresting to Greenberg. Of course Judaism isn't supposed to be misogynist, now go fix the divorce system. Gett over it.
Greenberg is at her best when she's grappling with her own journey and recognizing that her writing is an attempt to cultivate the produce of meaning. Like a tomato. She's most frustrating when she writes like she has already found it. (Like Denethor eating a tomato. Okay, not that bad. Nothing is that bad. But you get the idea.)