![]() ![]() Carrie Simon, Mathilde Schechter, and Rebecca Goldstein are the "pioneer" rabbis' wives of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements of the late nineteenth century. Rubin provides biographical sketches of the lives of some of the key women who were married to (mostly) prominent rabbis. ![]() ![]() ![]() In telling the story of rabbis' wives in the United States in the twentieth century, Shuly Rubin Schwartz brings a new awareness to this group of women whose notable accomplishments have been neglected by scholars of American Jewish history. I was curious about whether they would rather have been me, or if in another era I would have been one of them instead. I wondered what they thought about women rabbis, whether they saw me as a potential friend and colleague, or envied me for all the time I spent learning and working with their husbands. As a rabbinical student who was married to one of my classmates in the 1970s, I thought often about the other women who were married to men in my class and those who served as rebbetzins in the congregations where I went to shul or served as a rabbinic intern. ![]()
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