Lively essays investigating American Jewish women's images in popular culture.
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6 x 9 trim. 17 illus. 4 figs. LC 97-15874
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JOYCE ANTLER is samuel Lane Professor and Chairperson, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University. Her most recent book is The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century (1997).
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From where we are, in the last decade of the twentieth century, the Jewish women who came to America from Europe look like heroic beginners. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist haggadot, new haggadah, community seders, manifold self, traditional haggadah, immigrant daughters, biblical women, funny girl, seder plate, immigrant mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Jewish, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Lower East Side, Jewish American, Joan Rivers, World War, Barbra Streisand, Philip Roth, Herman Wouk, Molly Picon, Gertrude Berg, Project Kesher, The Way We Were, Anzia Yezierska, Natalie Jastrow, San Diego Women's Haggadah, Sheila Levine, American Jews, Anne Frank, John Norman, Bette Midler, Passover Haggadah, San Francisco New!
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From where we are, in the last decade of the twentieth century, the Jewish women who came to America from Europe look like heroic beginners. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist haggadot, new haggadah, community seders, manifold self, traditional haggadah, immigrant daughters, biblical women, funny girl, seder plate, immigrant mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Jewish, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Lower East Side, Jewish American, Joan Rivers, World War, Barbra Streisand, Philip Roth, Herman Wouk, Molly Picon, Gertrude Berg, Project Kesher, The Way We Were, Anzia Yezierska, Natalie Jastrow, San Diego Women's Haggadah, Sheila Levine, American Jews, Anne Frank, John Norman, Bette Midler, Passover Haggadah, San Francisco New!
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- Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International) by Philip Roth on 8 pages
- The Winds of War by Herman Wouk on 7 pages
- Hungry Hearts (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Anzia Yezierska on 5 pages
- Later the Same Day (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Grace Paley on 4 pages
- Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story by Anzia Yezierska on page 22, page 23, and Back Matter
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- Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America by James D. Bloom on 4 pages
- Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories by Laurence Roth in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Key Texts in American Jewish Culture by Jack Kugelmass on page 144, and page 292
- The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (Religion and Gender) by Melissa Raphael in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture by Ted Merwin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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