Daughters Of The Shtetl


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Daughters of the Shtetl


Daughters of the Shtetl

Author: Susan Anita Glenn

language: en

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Release Date: 1990


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Examines the role of Jewish women immigrants in the garment industry in early twentieth-century America.

Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XI: Values, Interests, and Identity


Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XI: Values, Interests, and Identity

Author: Peter Y. Medding

language: en

Publisher: OUP USA

Release Date: 1995


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This collection of original articles addresses the often conflicting roles of values, interests, and identity in contemporary Jewish politics. with its focus on Jews and contemporary politics - particularly the interplay of politics and jewish history - this new work makes an outstanding contribution to the scholarly literature.

Women of the Word


Women of the Word

Author: Judith Reesa Baskin

language: en

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Release Date: 1994


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While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.