SBF Response to Harriet Hartman Sklare Award Address
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SBF Response to Harriet Hartman Sklare Award Address Sylvia Barack Fishman1
© Springer Nature B.V. 2020
It is a great pleasure and an honor to respond to Prof. Harriet Hartman’s Sklare Award Address. As this afternoon’s fascinating and thought-provoking talk so well illustrates, Prof. Hartman’s work consistently takes on a very difficult task: She discusses the very big picture by discussing all the diverse little pictures that make up the big picture. Harriet Hartman’s analytical view encompasses both the forest and the trees. Her prolific scholarly work reminds me of one of those great historical paintings in which you can look at a broad panorama—and then you notice that the panorama is made up of numerous discrete dramas, each very different from the other. Spread out across the canvas is the broad big picture, made up of an incredible level of closely observed detail. What especially distinguishes Harriet Hartman’s work is not just her attention to these diverse parts, but the groundbreaking ways in which she examines how all the moving parts affect each other. This is an approach that may seem obvious now that she has shown us how it is done, but was not obvious at all when she began doing it decades ago. Harriet Hartman was one of the first social scientists to personally seek out opportunities to write extensive analysis of gender and Jewish life in her studies of contemporary Jewish societies and families. Harriet Hartman first began publishing during a time period when many social scientists thought of gender as irrelevant and didn’t bother breaking data down by gender. Her dissertation for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Women’s Roles in Israeli Society,” was completed in 1983.1 Since then she has created painstaking, extensive analyses of the intersection 1 Harriet Hartman’s dissertation, Women’s Roles in Israeli Society, Hebrew University (Hebrew) (1983), opened a long series of solo-authored book chapters and articles on gender and families in refereed journals, including: “The Jewish Family,” American Jewish Year Book 2016, Springer Publishers; “The 2013 Pew Report Through a Gender Lens,” American Jewish Year Book 2014, Springer (2014), pp. 41–46; “The Changing Roles of Israeli Women” in P. Mahler and F. Lazin (eds.), Israel in the Nineties: Development and Conflict (1996, University of Florida Press); “The Status of Women in Israeli Society,” pp. 143–145 in J. R. Baskin and S. Tenenbaum (eds.), Gender and Jewish Studies: A Curriculum Guide, New York: Biblio Press, 1994; “Economic and Familial Roles of Women in Israel,” Y. Azmon and D. Izraeli, Women in Israel, Transaction Books, 1993; “Division of Labor in Israeli Families,” in L. Shamgar-Handelman and R. Bar-Yosef (Eds.), Families in Israel, Jerusalem: Academon, 1991 (Hebrew); “Is
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between education, occupation and economic status, religious choices and family choices, including fertility, in the lives of Jewish women and men. Hartma
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