![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking history, we see how they and the scores of women-the wives, mothers, activists, and workers who appear in these pages-both little-known and world-renowned, maintained their Jewish identities as they wrote themselves into American history. ![]() Pamela Nadell’s America’s Jewish Women: A History From Colonial Times to Today uncovers what it has meant to be a Jewish woman in America by weaving together the stories of remarkable individuals-from the colonial matron Grace Mendes Seixas Nathan and her great-granddaughter, the poet Emma Lazarus, to labor activist Bessie Hillman, nurse and advocate Lillian Wald, feminist writer Betty Friedan and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award - Everett Family Foundation Book of the YearĪ groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.Ī great storyteller, Nadell brings these women to life on the page…testimony to decades of pioneering scholarship in American Jewish women’s history, of which the author’s works are leading exemplars.” American Historical Review ![]()
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