Pnina Lahav
Biographic Data
| ID | 771727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pnina Lahav |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pnina |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahav |
| SIGNATURE | LAHAV P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7676-0183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait…
A Great Episode in the History of Jewish Womanhood”: Golda Meir, the Women Workers' Council, Pioneer Women, and the Struggle for Gender Equality
The establishment of the American Pioneer Women Organization revealed two patterns typical of the Labor Movement in the Yishuv: women’s struggle to break the patriarchal chains that kept them subordinated to men and the centrality of American funding for the socialist project of Zionist nation building. In Palestine, the Women Worker’s Council (Council) (Moetzet Hapoalot), while founded at the same time as the Histadrut (Federation of Labor), enc…
The Women of the Wall: A Metaphor for National and Religious Identity
The Women of the Wall wish to participate in communal prayer in the women's section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Their practice is to pray as a group, wrap themselves in a tallit, and read from the Torah scroll. They represent Jewish pluralism in that their group includes Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and secular women. They represent openness to change in that they base their claims on Halakhic interpretation, thereby embracing the capacit…
A Chandelier For Women: A Tale About the Diaspora Museum and Maurycy Gottlieb's ?Day Of Atonement??Jews Praying on Yom Kippur
The Yom Kippur exhibit at the Diaspora Museum in Tel-Aviv included a rendition of Maurycy Gottlieb's painting "Jews Praying on Yom Kippur." While the original painting at the Tel-Aviv Museum included women, the Diaspora Museum's version replaced the women with a chandelier. This article reviews four arguments presented by the Diaspora Museum in its defense: the argument that the curators were not aware of feminist theories, as well as historical,…
Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
A “Jewish State…to Be Known as the State of Israel”: Notes on Israeli Legal Historiography
In 1953 a musical titled The Adventures of Nasseradin opened in Tel Aviv. One of its tunes, the “Song of Law,” had music and lyrics so appealing that overnight it became the most popular song in Israel. The subject of the lyric was a tyrant, the Emir of the Kingdom of Buchara. Two brothers were arguing over a pot, and the Emir in his capacity as judge, presided over their trial. His decree: plaintiff and defendant should be executed and the pot t…
Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
Journal Article Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century Get access Lahav Pnina, Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1997. xvii, 331 pp. $29.95. Martin Edelman Martin Edelman The University at Albany (N.Y.) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History,…
The Jewish Perspective in International Law
Let me start with two qualifications. First, this question: is defining the term "Jewish" essential to an exploration of a Jewish vision of international law? The historian Jacob Talmon recalls an exchange between a Gentile and a Jew: "I thought you were Jewish," said the Gentile. "Well," answered the Jew, "by a biological standard I am Jewish, since both of my parents were Jewish, but it is 20 years since I sent a letter of resignation to the Je…
The Press and National Security
National Security and Democracy in Israel
Critically reappraising Israel's record as a democracy, the authors (leading Israeli scholars) discuss a variety of problems that arise from the fact that the country has been, since its inception, a democracy under siege
Israeli Democracy Under Stress
The authors explore the increasing ungovernmability of the Jewish state, its obsolete electoral system and cynical coalition politics, its overburdened judiciary, its stagnant economy, and related issues. While highly critical, they present the most comprehensive effort to date to provide a scholarly foundation for political reform in Israel
Raising the Status of Women through Law: The Case of Israel
The Israeli experience in using law to improve the equality of women can teach us an important lesson: legal devices to further the status of women can well turn into traps. The extra protection of women in 1951 created vested interests. The groups who enjoy them oppose change. Thus, the tactical step has proven a barrier for the long-term strategy. It not only helps internalize and legitimize sex roles, but also makes change materially painful. …
The Division of Legal Labor in Rual Haiti
This paper explores the institutional facilities available to Haitian peasants for the settlement of their disputes. More specifically, it compares the institution of the Chef de Section - the lowest administrative appointee in the Haitian countryside and the Justice of the Peace - the lowest ranking judicial institution provided by the Haitian legal system. The paper further advances the hypothesis that at the present time there is a shift in th…
The Status of Women in Israel-Myth and Reality
The issue of women's rights has been subjected to reexamination and redefinition in recent years. The legal structure relevant to this issue, so clearly intertwined with traditional values and historical prejudices, is increasingly studied in an attempt to find ways to achieve equality of the sexes in our lifetime. In this context, cross-cultural study of diverse societies and legal systems can make a vital contribution. A step forward in this di…
Raising the Status of Women through Law: The Case of Israel
The Israeli experience in using law to improve the equality of women can teach us an important lesson: legal devices to further the status of women can well turn into traps. The extra protection of women in 1951 created vested interests. The groups who enjoy them oppose change. Thus, the tactical step has proven a barrier for the long-term strategy. It not only helps internalize and legitimize sex roles, but also makes change materially painful. …
A Great Episode in the History of Jewish Womanhood”: Golda Meir, the Women Workers' Council, Pioneer Women, and the Struggle for Gender Equality
The establishment of the American Pioneer Women Organization revealed two patterns typical of the Labor Movement in the Yishuv: women’s struggle to break the patriarchal chains that kept them subordinated to men and the centrality of American funding for the socialist project of Zionist nation building. In Palestine, the Women Worker’s Council (Council) (Moetzet Hapoalot), while founded at the same time as the Histadrut (Federation of Labor), enc…
The Women of the Wall: A Metaphor for National and Religious Identity
The Women of the Wall wish to participate in communal prayer in the women's section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Their practice is to pray as a group, wrap themselves in a tallit, and read from the Torah scroll. They represent Jewish pluralism in that their group includes Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and secular women. They represent openness to change in that they base their claims on Halakhic interpretation, thereby embracing the capacit…
The Status of Women in Israel-Myth and Reality
The issue of women's rights has been subjected to reexamination and redefinition in recent years. The legal structure relevant to this issue, so clearly intertwined with traditional values and historical prejudices, is increasingly studied in an attempt to find ways to achieve equality of the sexes in our lifetime. In this context, cross-cultural study of diverse societies and legal systems can make a vital contribution. A step forward in this di…
The Status of Women in Israel-Myth and Reality
The issue of women's rights has been subjected to reexamination and redefinition in recent years. The legal structure relevant to this issue, so clearly intertwined with traditional values and historical prejudices, is increasingly studied in an attempt to find ways to achieve equality of the sexes in our lifetime. In this context, cross-cultural study of diverse societies and legal systems can make a vital contribution. A step forward in this di…
The Division of Legal Labor in Rual Haiti
This paper explores the institutional facilities available to Haitian peasants for the settlement of their disputes. More specifically, it compares the institution of the Chef de Section - the lowest administrative appointee in the Haitian countryside and the Justice of the Peace - the lowest ranking judicial institution provided by the Haitian legal system. The paper further advances the hypothesis that at the present time there is a shift in th…
Raising the Status of Women through Law: The Case of Israel
The Israeli experience in using law to improve the equality of women can teach us an important lesson: legal devices to further the status of women can well turn into traps. The extra protection of women in 1951 created vested interests. The groups who enjoy them oppose change. Thus, the tactical step has proven a barrier for the long-term strategy. It not only helps internalize and legitimize sex roles, but also makes change materially painful. …
The Jewish Perspective in International Law
Let me start with two qualifications. First, this question: is defining the term "Jewish" essential to an exploration of a Jewish vision of international law? The historian Jacob Talmon recalls an exchange between a Gentile and a Jew: "I thought you were Jewish," said the Gentile. "Well," answered the Jew, "by a biological standard I am Jewish, since both of my parents were Jewish, but it is 20 years since I sent a letter of resignation to the Je…
The Press and National Security
National Security and Democracy in Israel
Critically reappraising Israel's record as a democracy, the authors (leading Israeli scholars) discuss a variety of problems that arise from the fact that the country has been, since its inception, a democracy under siege
Israeli Democracy Under Stress
The authors explore the increasing ungovernmability of the Jewish state, its obsolete electoral system and cynical coalition politics, its overburdened judiciary, its stagnant economy, and related issues. While highly critical, they present the most comprehensive effort to date to provide a scholarly foundation for political reform in Israel
Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
Journal Article Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century Get access Lahav Pnina, Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1997. xvii, 331 pp. $29.95. Martin Edelman Martin Edelman The University at Albany (N.Y.) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History,…
Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
A “Jewish State…to Be Known as the State of Israel”: Notes on Israeli Legal Historiography
In 1953 a musical titled The Adventures of Nasseradin opened in Tel Aviv. One of its tunes, the “Song of Law,” had music and lyrics so appealing that overnight it became the most popular song in Israel. The subject of the lyric was a tyrant, the Emir of the Kingdom of Buchara. Two brothers were arguing over a pot, and the Emir in his capacity as judge, presided over their trial. His decree: plaintiff and defendant should be executed and the pot t…
A Chandelier For Women: A Tale About the Diaspora Museum and Maurycy Gottlieb's ?Day Of Atonement??Jews Praying on Yom Kippur
The Yom Kippur exhibit at the Diaspora Museum in Tel-Aviv included a rendition of Maurycy Gottlieb's painting "Jews Praying on Yom Kippur." While the original painting at the Tel-Aviv Museum included women, the Diaspora Museum's version replaced the women with a chandelier. This article reviews four arguments presented by the Diaspora Museum in its defense: the argument that the curators were not aware of feminist theories, as well as historical,…
The Women of the Wall: A Metaphor for National and Religious Identity
The Women of the Wall wish to participate in communal prayer in the women's section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Their practice is to pray as a group, wrap themselves in a tallit, and read from the Torah scroll. They represent Jewish pluralism in that their group includes Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and secular women. They represent openness to change in that they base their claims on Halakhic interpretation, thereby embracing the capacit…
A Great Episode in the History of Jewish Womanhood”: Golda Meir, the Women Workers' Council, Pioneer Women, and the Struggle for Gender Equality
The establishment of the American Pioneer Women Organization revealed two patterns typical of the Labor Movement in the Yishuv: women’s struggle to break the patriarchal chains that kept them subordinated to men and the centrality of American funding for the socialist project of Zionist nation building. In Palestine, the Women Worker’s Council (Council) (Moetzet Hapoalot), while founded at the same time as the Histadrut (Federation of Labor), enc…
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait…
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (12 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (6 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)