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Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present

Author: Hasia Diner, Beryl Benderly, Beryl Lieff Benderly
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 2002-02-19
ISBN: 0465017118

$6.00


 

Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present

Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present
by: Hasia Diner, Beryl Benderly, Beryl Lieff Benderly


Editorial Review:

The first social history of American Jewish women over the last four centuries--the story of how this vital community forged new ways of being Jewish and profound ideas of what it means to be a woman.

From salons in Federal Philadelphia to Frontier homesteads to settlement houses in city slums to 1970s consciousness-raising sessions, American Jewish women have brought a distinctive sense of self and community to bear on the economic, social, and family life around them. Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly draw upon long-neglected public records, private diaries, memoirs and letters to overturn the widespread notion that Jewish life began at Ellis Island and happened only in New York. They offer a complex portrait of flesh-and-blood characters such as Emma Lazarus, Mrs. Wyatt Earp, Ethel Rosenberg, Betty Friedan, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The result is a comprehensive account of how America transformed generations of Jewish women--and how these women transformed America.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

A beautiful, fascinating, thrilling book:

I loved this book! Every Jewish woman (and man) and everyone interested in Jewish life in America should read it. It gives a view of American and Jewish history I had never seen before, and it is beautifully written. It is full of moving stories of real women working to build America at every period of history. I had never understood how important women have been in creating the American Jewish community. Just wonderful!


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