A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals

by Naomi Shepherd

Book Overview

Why, in the late nineteenth century, did Jewish women suddenly march en masse into the pages of radical history? A Price Below Rubies explores this question and introduces us to these women--particularly, Anna Kuliscioff, Rosa Luxemburg, Esther Frumkin, Manya Shochat, Bertha Pappenheim, Rose Pesotta, and Emma Goldman. Naomi Shepherd's collective biography of these seven women and others tells the story of a revolution that began at home, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674704118
• ISBN13: 9780674704114
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"