The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American CenturyIn recent decades, prominent American Jewish women like Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan have made headlines and history, challenging the constraints facing women in American public life. Few realize that these women embody a hundred-year legacy of remarkable activism. From suffrage to birth control, from trade unionism to higher education, from civil rights to feminism to every aspect of popular culture, Jewish women have been in the vanguard, leading key social movements and shaping cultural consciousness. Anarchists and Zionists, "sob sister" writers and Supreme Court justices, rabbis and reformers, personalities as diverse as Emma Goldman, Sophie Tucker and Gertrude Stein have left their indelible mark on the American century. Joyce Antler profiles these women leaders in The Journey Home, interweaving social history with brilliant portraiture. In a fresh and lively narrative, she examines the political conflicts and personal tensions that animated their lives as they redefined the landscapes of American culture and society. To change their nation they battled class and gender prejudice, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant fervor. They drew sustenance from Jewish tradition but always took independent stands. |
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Contents
On the Edge of the Twentieth Century | 1 |
The Paradox of Immigration | 17 |
Uptown Women and Social and Spiritual Reform | 40 |
Radical Politics and Labor Organizing | 73 |
The Dream of a Jewish Homeland 888 | 98 |
Jewish Women in Popular Culture | 136 |
Pioneers in the Professions | 176 |
Entering the Theatres of the World | 203 |
Imagining Jewish Mothers | 233 |
Feminist Liberations | 259 |
Coming Out as Jewish Women | 285 |
Out of Exile | 309 |
When Daughters Are Cherished | 328 |
A Guide to Archival Collections | 335 |
Acknowledgments | 387 |
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