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Author Diner, Hasia R.

Title Her works praise her : a history of Jewish women in America from colonial times to the present / Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2002]
©2002

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  973.0049 DINER    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-450) and index.
Contents pt. 1. "You cannot know what a wonderful country" : the Atlantic World: 1654-1820 -- pt. 2. "The length and breadth of the Union" : the central European migration: 1820-1880 -- pt. 3. "The golden door" : the eastern European migration: 1881-1924 -- pt. 4. "My home sweet home" : American-born east Europeans remake Jewish life, 1925-1963 -- pt. 5. "Beyond your command" : remaking womanhood, 1964-onward.
Subject Jewish women -- United States -- History.
Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.
Women immigrants -- United States -- History.
Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.
Jewish women -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.
Judaism -- United States -- History.
Women -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Added Author Benderly, Beryl Lieff.
ISBN 0465017118
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