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American Jewish women's history : a reader
Title:
American Jewish women's history : a reader
Author:
Nadell, Pamela Susan.
Publication Information:
New York : New York University Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
ix, 326 pages ; 26 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Portraits of a community: the image and experience of early American Jews / Ellen Smith -- The lessons of the Hebrew Sunday school / Dianne Ashton -- A great awakening: the transformation that shaped twentieth-century American Judaism / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Gone to another meeting: the National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993 / Faith Rogow -- Borrowers or lenders be: Jewish immigrant women's credit networks / Shelly Tenenbaum -- "We dug more rocks": women and work / Linda Mack Schloff -- Organizing the unorganizable: three Jewish women and their union / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Immigrant women and consumer protest: the New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902 / Paula E. Hyman -- Zion in our hearts: Henrietta Szold and the American Jewish Women's movement / Joyce Antler -- The Jewish priestess and ritual: the sacred life of American Orthodox women / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- The women who would be rabbis / Pamela S. Nadell -- Budgets, boycotts, and babies: Jewish women in the great depression / Beth S. Wenger -- Angels "Rewolt!": Jewish women in modern dance in the 1930s / Julia L. Foulkes -- The "me" of me: voices of Jewish girls in adolescent diaries of the 1920s and 1950s / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- Rage and representation: Jewish gender stereotypes in American culture / Riv-Ellen Prell -- "From the recipe file of Luba Cohen": a study of southern Jewish foodways and cultural identity / Marcie Cohen Ferris -- Going south: Jewish women in the civil rights movement / Debra L. Schultz -- Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula E. Hyman.
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ISBN:
9780814758076

9780814758083
Format :
Book