Strictly Observant

Yonathan Shapiro Best Book Award from the Association for Israel Studies  The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women’s relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a more nuanced picture of the boundaries at play and women’s roles in negotiating them.   Strictly Observant  presents a compelling ethnographic study of the com