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The Journey Home : How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America |
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Jewish identity is proved by motherhood, and it's a fairly well-founded stereotype that women are the most powerful people in American Jewish families. (Think of Rhoda's mother or Woody Allen's Mother-in-the-Sky.) Yet many Jewish communities still view women as second-class citizens, which exacerbates the social alienation that immigration and assimilation have wrought on many American Jewish women. The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America is Joyce Antler's attempt to find common ground among American Jewish women in the 20th century. The book interweaves social history, including Antler's memories of her own mother and grandmother, with the stories of Jewish women who have been influential in the vanguard of social and cultural movements such as suffrage, civil rights, birth control, trade unionism, and feminism. Bella Abzug, Edna Ferber, Gertrude Stein, Betty Friedan, and Barbra Streisand are among the leading characters in Antler's narrative, which is an impressive monument to Jewish women's achievements so far--and will be an indispensable comfort and guide to Jewish women in the future. --Michael Joseph Gross
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