Edith Pick, PhD, HBI Postdoctoral Associate
This talk explores how Jewish women – mothers in particular – organize at the intersection of gender and nationalism, in Israel and the diaspora. Drawing on contemporary examples of maternal activism, it asks how women’s voices as mothers reveal diverse relationships with national identities and narratives, militarism, and the Jewish state, and how mothers’ groups position themselves in relation to feminism, including its liberal, radical, and anti-feminist forms. The talk also examines how these political visions and organizational models travel transnationally between Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
Edith Pick holds a PhD in Business and Management from Queen Mary University of London, and in her dissertation explored “the construction of diversity and difference in UK Jewish nonprofit organisations.”
