America's Jewish women : a history from colonial times to today

Author/Creator:

Nadell, Pamela Susan, author

Publication/Creation:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]

Format:

Book

Edition:

First Edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

America's Jewish women : a history from colonial times to today / Pamela S. Nadell

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Jewish women--United States--History
Jewish women--Political activity--United States
Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

"Many are the blessings I partake of": America's early Jewish women -- "Mothers in Israel": the American Jewesses -- "A new kind of Jewess": Eastern European Jewish women in America -- "Woman is looking around and ahead": wider worlds -- "Down from the pedestal...up from the laundry room": into the future.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiv, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936875380802486

ISBN:

9780393651232
0393651231

OCLC Number:

1037810222

Barcode:

010003094500