Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace : : American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940 / / Melissa R. Klapper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Klapper, Melissa R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 to the beginnings of World War II.Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that no history of the birth control, suffrage, or peace movements in the United States is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women's presence. The volume is based on years of extensive primary source research in more than a dozen archives and among hundreds of primary sources, many of which have previously never been seen. Voluminous personal papers and institutional records paint a vivid picture of a world in which both middle-class and working-class American Jewish women were consistently andpublicly engaged in all the major issues of their day and worked closely with their non-Jewish counterparts on behalf of activist causes.This extraordinarily well researched volume makes a unique contribution to the study of modern women's history, modern Jewish history, and the history of American social movements.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Organization Names -- Introduction -- 1 “We Jewish Women Should Be Especially Interested 18 in Our New Citizenship” -- 2 “I Started to Get Smart, Not to Have So Many Children” -- 3 “We United with Our Sisters of Other Faiths in Petitioning for Peace” -- 4 “They Have Been the Pioneers” -- 5 “Where the Yellow Star Is” -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author