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The JOURNEY HOME |
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In The Journey Home, profiles of more than 50 notable Jewish American women are woven into a carefully researched though somewhat scattershot social history of the 20th century. The paths that these rousing activists and artists of all stripes chose often clashed with family and religious mores. Pressing toward their goals made them outcasts as surely as their religion did, notes historian Joyce Antler. Ironically, she says, reviled political firebrands, from anarchist labor organizer Emma Goldman to the wonderfully abrasive and outspoken New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, echoed actions undertaken by respectable Jewish housewives who occasionally "took to the streets, waging bitter strikes to protest the high costs of housing and food" in what was considered a socially acceptable defense of their families. Zionists Henrietta Szold and Golda Meir, sob sister Fanny Hurst, vaudeville star Fanny Brice, and feminists Betty Friedan and Letty Cottin Pogrebin are among those who receive their due. Finding a home in the world called for a reckoning between their Jewish identity, their essential natures, and the more prosaic roles they were expected to fill.
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