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"Ever since Peter Stuyvesant in 1654 grudgingly admitted a band of twenty-three refugee Jews to colonial New Amsterdam, Jewish women have played a pivotal role in building the culture of the United States and in shaping the history of American Judaism. From salons in Federal Philadelphia to gold rush boarding houses, from frontier homesteads to Progressive-era settlement houses to 1970s protest marches, American Jewish women used their distinctive sense of self and community to fashion families, livelihoods and religious practices that fit both American opportunities and ancient Jewish values.". "In this lively and moving account, the first-ever social history of America's Jewish women, Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly chronicle fifteen generations of women who were mothers, wives and daughters - as well as earners, organizers and entrepreneurs. These women bult families, communities, businesses and institutions across the continent, while also asserting their claim to a role in the life of the synagogue. Drawing on long-neglected public records, private diaries, memoirs and letters, the authors overturn the widespread notions that Jewish life began at Ellis Island, that it

Author

Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly

Publisher

New York, NY

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780465017119

Subjects

History, Humanities