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The Rabbi's atheist daughter : Ernestine Rose, international feminist pioneer

Title
The Rabbi's atheist daughter : Ernestine Rose, international feminist pioneer / Bonnie S. Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Bonnie S.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
  • ©2016

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Description
xi, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"Early feminist Ernestine Rose, more famous in her time than Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, has been undeservedly forgotten. During the 1850s, Rose was an outstanding orator for women's rights in the United States who became known as "the Queen of the platform." Yet despite her successes and close friendships with other activists, she would gradually be erased from history for being a foreigner, a radical, and, of most concern to her peers and later historians, an atheist. In The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter, Bonnie S. Anderson recovers the legacy of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent radical activists. The only child of a Polish rabbi, Ernestine Rose rejected religion at an early age, legally fought a betrothal to a man she did not want to marry, and left her family, Judaism, and Poland forever. She would eventually move to London, where she became a follower of the manufacturer-turned-socialist Robert Owen and met her husband, fellow Owenite William Rose. Together they emigrated to New York City in 1836. In the U.S., Rose was a prominent leader at every national women's rights convention, lecturing across the country in favor of feminism and against slavery and religion. But the rise of anti-Semitism and religious fervor during the Civil War-coupled with rifts in the women's movement when black men, but not women, got the vote- left Rose without a platform. Returning to England, she continued advocating for feminism, free thought, and pacifism. Although many radicals honored her work, her contributions to women's rights had been passed over by historians by the 1920s. Nearly a century later, The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter, a well-rounded portrait of one of the mothers of the American feminist movement, returns Ernestine Rose to her rightful place"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Biography.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Her unsurpassed speech -- 1. Self-creation -- 2. The new moral world -- 3. A radical in New York city -- 4. Building a women's movement -- 5. Agitate, agitate! -- 6. A minority of one -- 7. Dissention, division, departure -- 8. The heroine of a hundred battles -- Epilogue: I have lived.
Call Number
JFE 19-134
ISBN
  • 9780199756247
  • 0199756244
LCCN
  • 2016014651
  • 40026744316
OCLC
945730192
Author
Anderson, Bonnie S., author.
Title
The Rabbi's atheist daughter : Ernestine Rose, international feminist pioneer / Bonnie S. Anderson.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Other Form:
Online version: Anderson, Bonnie S. Rabbi's atheist daughter. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] 9780190626389 (DLC) 2016014997
Other Standard Identifier
40026744316
Research Call Number
JFE 19-134
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