jewish women

Addie Baum was born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America. Growing up in Boston, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine: a world of short skirts and new opportunities for women. From the one-room apartment she shared with her family, to the library group for girls she joins, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor.

Addie Baum, born in Boston in 1900 to immigrant parents, reflects on her life experiences, including her childhood, her teenage years, her first love affair, her career as a newspaper typist, and the pursuit of her dreams.

"[A story] about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early in twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were too unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine, a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her 'How did you get to be the woman you are today.'"--Provided by publisher.

A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and socialservice. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agentsof class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.

Presents a comprehensive study of American Jewish women beginning with the first Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the end of the twentieth century and shows how they helped to shape American society, politics, and culture.

Abigail Warner, the wife of a well-known and respected accountant, is in the midst of planning her daughter Cayla's wedding when her husband is arrested for fraud, and she must make some life-changing decisions when Cayla, having quarreled with her fianc? over the situation, heads to Israel where she becomes involved with a charismatic desert mystic.

Miriam, the second daughter of Talmud commentator Salomon ben Isaac in eleventh-century France, comes to depend heavily on her faith when she decides to become a midwife and mohel, and falls in love with a learned and handsome young scholar with a devastating secret.

Documents the contributions of Jews in America from colonial times to the present, in peace and in war.