Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 / / Melissa R. Klapper.
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published-or even read-to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education.Klapper exp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 13 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Any Other Girls in This Whole World Like Myself”: Jewish Girls and Adolescence in America
- 2 “Unless I Got More Education”: Jewish Girls and the Problem of Education in Turn-of-the-Century America
- 3 “Education in the Broadest Sense”: Alternative Forms of Education for Working-Class Girls
- 4 “A Perfect Jew and a Perfect American”: The Religious Education of Jewish Girls
- 5 “Such a World of Pleasure”: Adolescent Jewish Girls and American Youth Culture
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author