"In this comprehensive, very readable piece of scholarship, Sylvia Barack Fishman charts how today's feminists (like turn-of-the-century Eastern European Jews or, later, Holocaust survivors) are responsible for American Judaism's freshest air . . . A germinal work." -- —Lilith
"A comprehensive and lively analysis of the changes created by women struggling and acquiring a place in Jewish communal life . . . A Breath of Life has excellent descriptions of the changes that have taken place and continue to take place as women struggle for equality in Jewish life." —(Boston) Jewish Advocate
"In this book rich in the voices of Jewish women, Fishman provides the first comprehensive and balanced analysis of the impact of feminism on contemporary American Jewish life."—Paula E. Hyman, Yale University
