Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace : American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 / Melissa R. Klapper.
2013
HQ1426 .K57 2013
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Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace : American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 / Melissa R. Klapper.
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9780814749463
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814748947.001.0001 doi
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HQ1426 .K57 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.4889240730904
Summary
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.
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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
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