The girls
Subtitle: Jewish women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995
By: Carole Bell Ford.
Series: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture; SUNY series on modern Jewish literature and culture.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews; Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Interviews.; Biography.
Description: "This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period.

Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the present, who lead fulfilling lives even as they struggle to adjust to changes in American society that conflict with their own values and that have profoundly affected the lives of their children and grandchildren."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.