Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)

In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prerogative.

Even more recently, women have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes the Talmud and midrashic books.

But the situation is changing, partly because of the special emphasis that modern Judaism places on learning its philosophy and traditions and on broadening its circle of knowers.