by Phyllis Holman Weisbard
The completely expanded Jewish feminist Who’s Who
It’s a good sign for Jewish feminists when a marvelous new resource arrives — in this case a CD edited by Paula E. Hyman, Dalia Ofer and Alice Shalvi, put out by Shalvi Publishing. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia ($99) contains over 1,690 biographical entries, 330 thematic articles, over 1,200 illustrations and 1,071 contributors (full disclosure: I’m one).