Author: American Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Joint Distribution Committee Representing American Jewish Relief Committee, Central Relief Committee, People's Relief Committee
Author: American Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Jewish Woman
Author: The Whole Wide World, Without Limits"
Author: Mary McCunePublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081433752X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An analysis of gender politics in the American Jewish community during the interwar period that reveals the role of gender and class in organizational politics and the importance of Jewish women in American political and activist history. Often perceived as being removed from the rough-and-tumble world of male politics, women involved in relief during World War I and the 1920s found themselves grappling daily with questions of ideology, nationalism, and political statehood. Participation in large-scale relief work provided Jewish women with a firm sense of their own capabilities and contributed to their heightened sense of gender consciousness. Their experience provides powerful evidence that women activists in the post-suffrage period sustained a notable degree of separation from men even as they propounded gender equality, thereby facilitating American Jewish women’s entrance into the public realm without their having to sacrifice commitment to either Jewish or women’s issues. Gendered and separatist strategies enabled women to bring their concerns into the public sphere, affect the course of American Jewish history, and shape modern American Jewish identity. "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits" explores the international relief activities of three American Jewish organizations during this period: the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah (the Women’s Zionist Organization of America), and the Workmen’s Circle. Women in all three organizations vigorously raised money for Jews in the war zones and continued to help them after the armistice. Author Mary McCune demonstrates the significance of the work of each group while analyzing the interactions between class, ethnicity, religion, and gender consciousness, both inside the Jewish community and in the broader American context. McCune looks at a wide variety of Jewish women—Zionists and anti-Zionists, religious and secular, capitalists and socialists, wealthy and working-class—and sheds light on the myriad ways that personal identity shapes public activism. More importantly, this book reveals how women’s charity work and their use of gendered strategies exerted influence over seemingly unrelated political events.
The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger
Author: The American Hebrew
Author: Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities
Author: The Mirage of American Jewish Aid in Soviet Russia, 1917-1939
Author: Zosa SzajkowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Chicago Commerce
Author: The Reform Advocate
Author: New Perspectives in American Jewish History
Author: Mark A. RaiderPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1684580536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
""New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna," compiled by Sarna's former students, presents heretofore unpublished, neglected, and rarely seen historical records, documents, and images that illuminate the heterogeneity, breadth, diversity, and colorful dynamism of the American Jewish experience"--