The journey home
Jewish women and the American century
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Word Count
102,500 words, Guess
Page Count
410 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1000380M
- ISBN-100684834448
- OCLC Control Number35758137
- OCLC Control Numberjourneyhomejewis00antl
- Library of Congress Control Number96039280
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- Goodreads2385350
- LibraryThing648376
Classifications
- DDC920.72/0973
- LCCE184.36.W64 A57 1997
Description
In 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.
First Sentence
"I was born, I have lived, and I have been made over."
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