My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman
Subtitle: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland
Contributors: Paula E. Hyman (Editor, Translator); Barbara Harshav (Translator)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780253340429
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Feminism; Jewish studies; Political activism; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History Of Zionist Movement; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Poland; Ethnic Cultures - General; Jewish - General; Women; Historical - General; 1865-1955; Biaystok; Bia±ystok; Biography; Jewish women; Jews; Rakovska, Puah,; Zionists
Description: "In this autobiography, Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955), who broke with her traditional upbringing to become a professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader, tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Poland. Her passionate account offers unprecedented entree into the life experience of East European Jewry in a period of massive social change.

Published in the original Yiddish in 1954, the work appears here in English for the first time, annotated and with a historical introduction by Paula E. Hyman."--BOOK JACKET.