The Voice of the Mothers: A Look into Sephardi Feminist Approaches to Tradition

The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience presents:

The Voice of the Mothers:
A Look into Sephardi Feminist Approaches to Tradition

Join us for a look into Sephardi Feminist approaches to tradition with Dr. Angy Cohen!

Monday, 15 November at 12:00PM EST

This talk will explore the experiences of Sephardi women who are building a feminist discourse that speaks the language of Sephardi tradition, tells the story of the grandmothers, reclaims the intellectual and moral authority of our foremothers, establishes a public Sephardi and feminist voice, and educates towards a more fair and tolerant Israeli society. We will dive into the experiences of the members of the Greater Sephardi-feminist Beit Midrash Arevot in Jerusalem, the only one of its kind in Israel, who have been working on the development of “traditionist feminism” (feminism masorati in Hebrew).

About the speaker:

Dr. Angy Cohen is the inaugural Belzberg Postdoctoral Associate in Israel Studies at University of Calgary. She is a cultural researcher whose work deals with personal narratives and identity construction among Moroccan Jews in Israel and Argentina and the experiences of Greater Sephardi women in the development of a feminist approach to tradition. Her approach to ethnographic work weaves together cultural psychology, narrative psychology, sociology, and anthropology. She is currently working on the manuscript of a book about personal narratives of Spanish-Moroccan Jews in Israel and Argentine, from a comparative approach.

Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center: https://www.bjhcenglish.com/

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