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America's Jewish women : a history from colonial times to today
- Title
- America's Jewish women : a history from colonial times to today / Pamela S. Nadell.
- Author
- Nadell, Pamela Susan
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.
- "Pamela S. Nadell has written a groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people--from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America's founding and Jewish identity, these women's lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home."--Dust jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5178
- ISBN
- 9780393651232
- 0393651231
- LCCN
- 2018050106
- 40028945401
- OCLC
- 1037810222
- Author
- Nadell, Pamela Susan, author.
- Title
- America's Jewish women : a history from colonial times to today / Pamela S. Nadell.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028945401
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5178