American Jewish women's history
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Pamela S. Nadell.
Contributors: Nadell, Pamela Susan.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Jewish women -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Jewish women -- United States -- Political activity; Jewish women -- Religious life -- United States; Jewish women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: American Jewish Women's History, an anthology covering colonial times to the present, illuminates that historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbors. It ranges from Rebecca Gratz's development of the Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1838 to protest the rising prices of kosher meat at the turn of the century, to the shaping of southern Jewish women's cultural identity through food. There is currently no other reader conveying the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women available.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.