America's Jewish women : a history from colonial times to today / Pamela S. Nadell.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]Edition: First EditionDescription: xiv, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393651232
- 0393651231
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 305.4889 N134 | Available | 33111009327566 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the complex story of Jewish women in America--from colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Recounting how Jewish women have been at the forefront of social, economic, and political causes for centuries, Nadell shows them fighting for suffrage, labor unions, civil rights, feminism, and religious rights--shaping a distinctly Jewish American identity.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.