American Jewish Women And The Zionist Enterprise
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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 | : Joyce Antler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1439138389 |
A unique, positive collection of essays profiles a number of forgotten female Jewish leaders who played key roles in various American social and political movements, from suffrage and birth control to civil rights and fair labor practices.
Author | : Mirah Ḳatsburg-Yungman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Israel |
ISBN | : 9781874774839 |
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is the largest Jewish women's organization in the Diaspora and the largest women's organization in the United States, surpassing all other Zionist organizations in the diversity and scope of its activity. The book probes the nature ofHadassah by analyzing its ideas and tracing their Jewish, American, and feminine origins; describing its activities in the US and Palestine, and illustrating its significance in the contexts of American Jewry, American Zionism, the World Zionist movement and Israel. An extensive historicalintroduction describes Hadassah's history from its inception until 1948 - its establishment and institutionalization, its early Zionist ideas, its medical and social activity in Palestine, and its role in Jewish society there. The introduction also discusses Hadassah's entry into political activityand, in tandem with other American Zionist organizations, its struggle for the establishment of Israel.Thus, as it analyzes the Hadassah ethos, its educational activity among American Jewry, the ideological disputes between Rose Halperin and David Ben-Gurion, and between Halperin and the Israeli deputies to the World Zionist Organization, the book explains the factors that enabled Hadassah tomaintain its continuity for so many years, despite changing times and circumstances. The last chapters of the book compare Hadassah with other Zion ist women's organizations and discuss Hadassah as a women's organization, and the importance of its Eretz Yisraeli "partners" who themselves functionedas pillars of the organization in the US. Finally, the conclusion presents factors that made Hadassah unique, facilitated its historical continuity and enabled it to cross social, ideational, and political borders, and to appeal to a very large population of women, transcending that of other Jewishwomen's organizations in the US.
Author | : Mary McCune |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814332290 |
Often perceived as being removed from the rough-and-tumble world of male politics, women involved in relief during World War I and the 1920s found themselves grappling daily with questions of ideology, nationalism, and political statehood. Participation in large-scale relief work provided Jewish women with a firm sense of their own capabilities and contributed to their heightened sense of gender consciousness. Their experience provides powerful evidence that women activists in the post-suffrage period sustained a notable degree of separation from men even as they propounded gender equality, thereby facilitating American Jewish women’s entrance into the public realm without their having to sacrifice commitment to either Jewish or women’s issues. Gendered and separatist strategies enabled women to bring their concerns into the public sphere, affect the course of American Jewish history, and shape modern American Jewish identity. "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits" explores the international relief activities of three American Jewish organizations during this period: the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah (the Women’s Zionist Organization of America), and the Workmen’s Circle. Women in all three organizations vigorously raised money for Jews in the war zones and continued to help them after the armistice. Author Mary McCune demonstrates the significance of the work of each group while analyzing the interactions between class, ethnicity, religion, and gender consciousness, both inside the Jewish community and in the broader American context. McCune looks at a wide variety of Jewish women—Zionists and anti-Zionists, religious and secular, capitalists and socialists, wealthy and working-class—and sheds light on the myriad ways that personal identity shapes public activism. More importantly, this book reveals how women’s charity work and their use of gendered strategies exerted influence over seemingly unrelated political events.
Author | : Jacob Rader Marcus |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 1148 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870687525 |
Contains primary source material.
Author | : June Sochen |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1981-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873955270 |
Author | : Pamela S. Nadell |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2003-04-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0814758088 |
“It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,“Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles. 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. The reader is divided into four sections complete with detailed introductions. The contributors include: Joyce Antler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Paula E. Hyman, Riv-Ellen Prell, and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Israel |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melissa R. Klapper |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2014-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479850594 |
"'Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace' explores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 through World War II. Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that no history of the suffrage, birth control, or peace movements in the United States is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women's presence. The volume is based on years of extensive primary-source research in more than a dozen archives and hundreds of published primary sources, many of which have previously never been seen. Voluminous personal papers and institutional records paint a vivid picture of a world in which both middle-class and working-class American Jewish women were consistently and publicly engaged in all the major issues of their day and worked closely with their non-Jewish counterparts on behalf of activist causes"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Jacob Rader Marcus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Jewish women |
ISBN | : |