Tefillin Barbie
Tefillin Barbie is an unofficial variant of the Barbie doll that wears the tallit and tefillin ritual objects reserved exclusively for men in Jewish Orthodoxy .
It was made in 2006 by the reform Jewish Soferet Jen Taylor Friedman, who first produced it in 2006. The doll has been featured on advertising pages reading a Sefer Torah , holding up the Torah scroll with her hands, as is customary when completing a Torah reading , or wearing a Siddur or reading a copy of the Talmud . A representation as part of the minyan is also known. Carrying ritual objects, reading or holding up the Torah and being counted for the minyan is reserved for men in Orthodox Judaism.
The concept of the “Tefillin Barbie” has been discussed controversially, for example in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles , Lilith Magazine , London's Jewish Chronicle , New Jersey Jewish News and The Forward .
Paul Hedges sees it as an expression of the changed role of Jewish women in society . For the cultural anthropologist Eric Klein Silverman, they represent attempts to break out of the orthodox role model.
literature
- It's a Barbie Mitzvah. In: The Jewish Chronicle. November 2, 2006.
- Randi Sherman: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Barbie On The Bima? In: The Jewish Week . February 23, 2007.
- Jenna Weissman Joselit: Between Us Girls. In: The Forward . March 2, 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aaron J. Hahn Tapper: Judaisms. A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities . University of California Press, Oakland 2016, ISBN 978-0-520-96000-8 ( books.google.com [accessed May 26, 2016]).
- ↑ Michal Lando: Page no longer available , search in web archives: The First Soferet. In: The Jerusalem Post . October 2, 2007.
- ^ Paul Hedges: Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality . 3 volumes. ABC-CLIO, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4408-0342-0 ( books.google.com [accessed May 26, 2016]).
- ^ Eric Silverman: A Cultural History of Jewish Dress . A&C Black, 2013, ISBN 978-0-85785-210-6 ( books.google.com [accessed May 26, 2016]).