Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 1998. With Voices of the Matriarchs Chava Weissler restores balance to our knowledge of Judaism by providing the first look at the Yiddish prayers women created during centuries of exclusion from mens observance. In Weisslers hands these prayers (called thkines) open a new window into early modern European Jewish womens lives beliefs devotion and relationships with God.