America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Author: Pamela Nadell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 039365124X

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.

Women and American Judaism

Women and American Judaism
Author: Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781584651246

New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.

American Judaism

American Judaism
Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300190395

Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year

Women Who Would Be Rabbis

Women Who Would Be Rabbis
Author: Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1999-10-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780807036495

1998 National Jewish Book Award finalist Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the courageous and committed Jewish women who passionately defended their right to equal religious participation through rabbinical ordination.

New Essays in American Jewish History

New Essays in American Jewish History
Author: Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9781602801486

"Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish Archives and the tenth anniversary of Gary P. Zola as its Director, New Essays in American Jewish History includes twenty-two new articles representing the best in modern American and Jewish scholarship. More than a celebration, New Essays serves as a scholarly benchmark in the growing field of American Jewish studies." --Amazon.com.

Jewish Roots in Southern Soil

Jewish Roots in Southern Soil
Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781584655893

A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.

Making Women's Histories

Making Women's Histories
Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-01-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814758908

Examines how women's histories are explored and explained around the world Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women’s history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women’s and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women’s and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future? The contributors discuss their discovery of women’s histories, the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women’s and gender history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them, surveying trajectories in the creation of women’s histories in recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures.

The Face of Our Past

The Face of Our Past
Author: Kathleen Thompson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253336354

Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present.

The Art of the Jewish Family

The Art of the Jewish Family
Author: Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center - Cultura
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781941792209

In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance; a set of silver cups owned by Reyna Levy Moses; an ivory miniature owned by Sarah Brandon Moses, who was born enslaved and became one of the wealthiest Jewish women in New York; a book created by Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai; and a family silhouette owned by Rebbetzin Jane Symons Isaacs. These objects offer intimate and tangible views into the lives of Jewish American women from a range of statuses, beliefs, and lifestyles--both rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, slaves and slaveowners. Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American women's lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity. While much of the available history was written by men, the objects that Leibman studies were made for and by Jewish women. Speaking to American Jewish life, women's studies, and American history, The Art of the Jewish Family sheds new light on the lives and values of these women, while also revealing the social and religious structures that led to Jewish women being erased from historical archives. The Art of the Jewish Family was the winner of three 2020 National Jewish Book Awards: the Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History, and the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies.