The Jewish Woman in America
Author | : Charlotte Baum |
Publisher | : Plume |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charlotte Baum |
Publisher | : Plume |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pamela Nadell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039365124X |
A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
Author | : Paula Hyman |
Publisher | : New York : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1770 |
Release | : 1998-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415919340 |
This encyclopedia provides the first standard reference work on the lives, history and activities of Jewish women in the United States. Covering a period which extends from the arrival of the first Jewish women in North America in 1654 to the present, this two-volume set presents the most comprehensive and detailed portrait of American Jewish women ever published, and brings together for the first time the wealth of recent scholarship on this subject. Includes: * Biographical entries on over 800 individual women. * 128 topical articles on organizations such as Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women, Mizrachi, and the Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. * Major essays on Jewish women's participation in the movement for women's suffrage, social reform, civil rights, and the recent women's movement. * The activities of Jewish women in politics, business, education, the arts, and religion. * A readable, inviting format with over 500 large photographs. * Bibliographies at the end of each entry which include overviews of major scholarship in the field, complete citations of more general works and citations of additional bibliographical and reference sources. * The comprehensive index includes citations to every substantive discussion in the entries as well as all proper names appearing in the text, such as organizations, book, song and film titles, schools, and individuals. The "Encyclopedia" provides information on American Jewish women in all fields of endeavor, and pays special attention to the work of women in the arts, academics, law, the labor movement, education, science, medicine, journalism and publishing, and on the lives of ordinary Jewish women during all time periods and in all regions of the United States.
Author | : Carol K. Ingall |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1584658568 |
The first volume to examine the contributions of women who brought the forces of American progressivism and Jewish nationalism to formal and informal Jewish education
Author | : Pamela Susan Nadell |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781584651246 |
New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.
Author | : Joyce Antler |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
America and I is the first anthology to chronicle the female tradition in 20th century American Jewish literature. Containing 23 short-stories by some of the best short-story practitioners, the book traces the remarkable output of Jewish women writers from 1900 to the present day.
Author | : Shulamit Reinharz |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781584654391 |
The first and only complete exploration of the role of American women in the creation and support of the State of Israel from pre-State years through the struggles of Israel's first decades.
Author | : Rebecca Lynn Winer |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814346324 |
This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place.
Author | : Hasia R. Diner |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813547911 |
Shira Kohn and Rachel Kranson are doctoral candidates in New York University's joint Ph. D. program in history and Hebrew and Judaic studies --Book Jacket.
Author | : Riv-Ellen Prell |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2007-08-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814335683 |
The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women’s issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.