For the Love of Woman: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, December 15, 1912

For the Love of Woman: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, December 15, 1912

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This is Series 12, no. 7 of Sunday Lectures before Congregation Rodeph Shalom. As the title and scripture text (Proverbs 31:31) suggest, this is an address about gender roles. Levy’s position on the matter is summed up in this passage on page 2: “These two forces, centrifugal and centripetal, find their reproduction in human society. Man may be called the centrifugal force; his tendency is to roam, to wander, to disperse. Woman may be regarded as the centripetal force; her tendency is to remain at home, to conserve, to unify, to unite. Wherever these two human forces meet and harmonize symmetrically one with the other, we find that nice balancing of power which we call civilized society.”

Notes

  • Series 12 has not been digitized in its entirety; this was scanned and uploaded as a stand-alone lecture. A complete list of the lectures in Series 12 appears at the end of Series 13, no. 3.
  • The title Reform Pulpit was added when a complete volume of lectures was published. Single lectures like this one were titled simply Sunday Lectures.

Publication Date

12-15-1912

Publisher

N.p.

City

Pittsburgh, PA

Keywords

Appalachia, Pennsylvania, Joseph Leonard Levy, Reform Judaism, Sermons

Disciplines

Appalachian Studies | Digital Humanities | Other Religion | Rhetoric

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Marshall does not own this item. According to WorldCat, the nearest physical copy is at the University of California, Los Angeles. Like all works published in the United States in the early 20th century, it is in the public domain

For the Love of Woman: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, December 15, 1912

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