‘So Shall You Say to the House of Jacob’

Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781906764692.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 108-143

Author(s):

Naomi Seidman

Keyword(s):

Young Women ◽

National Elections ◽

Torah Study ◽

Religious Activism

This chapter investigates how Bais Yaakov was able to forge an Orthodox discourse designed to attract young women, producing a long-running journal that featured a wide variety of articles of Jewish and general literary interest as well as other books and publications for a female readership. This enterprise began in 1923, when the young Po'alei Agudah (Agudah Workers' Organization) activist and writer Eliezer Gershon Friedenson decided to support Bais Yaakov by publishing a periodical with that name. The first issue of the Bais Yaakov Journal set the basic template, serving as the movement's primary mouthpiece by spreading word of its sacred mission and its remarkable accomplishments. A secondary goal was to bolster support for the Agudah among girls and women; the paper later endorsed Agudah candidates for national elections and called on its readers to vote. Ultimately, Bais Yaakov forged a rhetoric which celebrated girls' Torah study and religious activism, uncovering traditional resources that could be mobilized for these new purposes.

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Severe Paradoxical Dysphonia in Two Young Women

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/1058-0360.0203.52 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 52-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Collins ◽

Robert McDonald ◽

Robert Stanley ◽

Timothy Donovan ◽

C. Frank Bonebrake

Keyword(s):

Young Women ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Therapeutic Regimen ◽

Instrumental Data ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This report describes an unusual and persistent dysphonia in two young women who had taken a therapeutic regimen of isotretinoin for intractable acne. We report perceptual and instrumental data for their dysphonia, and pose a theoretical basis for the relationship of dysphonia to this drug. We also provide recommendations for reducing the risk of acquiring a dysphonia during the course of treatment with isotretinoin.

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What Do We Want Them To Be When They Grow Up?

Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood ◽

10.1044/hhdc20.1.27 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 27-31

Author(s):

Lyn Robertson

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Social Development ◽

Young Women ◽

Hearing Aids ◽

Test Scores ◽

Spoken Language ◽

Language Therapy ◽

Profound Hearing Loss ◽

Children With Hearing Loss ◽

Learning To Listen

Abstract Learning to listen and speak are well-established preludes for reading, writing, and succeeding in mainstream educational settings. Intangibles beyond the ubiquitous test scores that typically serve as markers for progress in children with hearing loss are embedded in descriptions of the educational and social development of four young women. All were diagnosed with severe-to-profound or profound hearing loss as toddlers, and all were fitted with hearing aids and given listening and spoken language therapy. Compiling stories across the life span provides insights into what we can be doing in the lives of young children with hearing loss.

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