Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

America's Jewish women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1037810222

Responsibility statement

Pamela S. Nadell

Sub title

a history from colonial times to today

Summary

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

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

Target audience

adult

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