The Rebellion of the Daughters : : Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia / / Rachel Manekin.

An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 69
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliteration and Terminology
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Origins of the “Daughters’ Question”
  • 2 Religious Ardor: Michalina Araten and Her Embrace of Catholicism
  • 3 Romantic Love: Debora Lewkowicz and Her Flight from the Village
  • 4 Intellectual Passion: Anna Kluger and Her Struggle for Higher Education
  • 5 Rebellious Daughters and the Literary Imagination: From Jacob Wassermann to S. Y. Agnon
  • 6 Bringing the Daughters Back: A New Model of Female Orthodox Jewish Education
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: In Their Own Words
  • Bibliography
  • Index