Cover Image

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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nadell, Pamela Susan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Jewish women > United States > History.
Jewish women > Political activity > United States.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Judaism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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.