America's Jewish Women : : a History From Colonial Times to Today
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"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.
A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393651232
0393651231
SUBJECTS
Jewish women -- History.
Jewish women -- Political activity.
Feminism -- Judaism.