A Revolution in Type : : Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press / / Ayelet Brinn.

A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapersBetween the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish-language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful institutions integral to American Jewish life. During this period, Y...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 13 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Orthography, Transliteration, and Translation
  • Introduction
  • 1. Home Papers and Human Interest Creating a Yiddish Newspaper Market
  • 2. Advice Columns and the Cultivation of a Yiddish Newspaper Audience
  • 3. “From a Woman to Women” Conversations in and around Women’s Columns
  • 4. The Advent of Women’s Pages in the American Yiddish Press
  • 5 “Women and Men Who Are Like Women”: Pseudonyms and the Interwar American Yiddish Press
  • Epilogue: Gender and the Historical Memory of the Yiddish Press
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author