American Jewish Women's History: A Reader

Book Overview

"It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,"Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles.
American Jewish Women's History, an anthology covering colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814758088
• ISBN13: 9780814758083
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.0"