Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women

by Paula E. Hyman

Book Overview

Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted "the Jews" as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between 1850 and 1950, she retrieves the experience of women as reflected in their writings--memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, and texts of speeches--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295974265
• ISBN13: 9780295974262
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"