Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920

Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920

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Main Author: Klapper, Melissa R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2005.
Subjects:
Jewish girls > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Jewish girls > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Jewish girls > Education > United States.
Jewish girls > United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Jewish girls > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Jewish religious education of girls > United States.
Jewish teenagers > United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Jewish teenagers > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Any other girls in this whole world like myself": Jewish girls and adolescence in America
  • 2. "Unless I got more education": Jewish girls and the problem of education in turn-of-the-century America
  • 3. "Education in the broadest sense": alternative forms of education for working-class girls
  • 4. "A perfect Jew and a perfect American": the religious education of Jewish girls
  • 5. "Such a world of pleasure": adolescent Jewish girls and American youth culture.

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