Tova Hartman (; born 1957) is the Dean of Humanities at the Ono Academic College.

Biography

Tova Hartman is the daughter of Rabbi Prof. David Hartman. She was married to Moshe Halbertal, and they have three daughters. She is a founder of Kehillat Shira Hadasha, a congregation organized to increase women's participation and leadership within traditional Jewish prayer and

halakha ''Halakha'' ( ; , ), also Romanization of Hebrew, transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Judaism, Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Torah, Written and Oral Torah. ''Halakha'' is ...

Academic career

Tova Hartman was a professor of Gender Studies and Education at

Bar Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

, specializing in gender and religion, and gender and psychology.

Literary career

She is the author of a book on Jewish and Catholic mothers, titled ''Appropriately Subversive,'' as well as a book on the crossroads of Jewish Tradition and modern feminism, titled ''Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism'', which won the

National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of qual ...

for Women's Studies in 2007. Hartman is the author of ''Are You Not a Man Of God? Devotion, Betrayal and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition.'' Her book ''“Men with Broken Hearts”'' published in 2022, offers insight into the lives of men dealing with separation from their partners.

Published works

* ''Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions'', Harvard University Press, 2003, *Hartman, T. and Marmon, M., "Lived Regulations, Systemic Attributions Menstrual Separation and Ritual Immersion in the Experience of Orthodox Jewish Women." ''Gender & Society'' 18:3, pp. 389–408 (2004)

References

External links

Hebrew University School of Education
* Tova Hartman and Tamar Miller, "Our Tradition, Ourselves"
''JOFA Bulletin'', Winter 2001
* Jessica Ravitz

'' Moment'', January/February 2009.
"Orthodox Group Fetes Traditional Roles"
''Forward'', May 11, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartman, Tova Living people Israeli Modern Orthodox Jews Modern Orthodox Jewish feminists Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University 1957 births Jewish ethicists Academic staff of Ono Academic College