Pioneers and homemakers : Jewish women in pre-state Israel / edited by Deborah S. Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernstein, Deborah.

Series:

SUNY Series in Israeli Studies

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women--Palestine--History--20th century.

Jewish women.

Feminism--Palestine--History--20th century.

Feminism.

Palestine--History--1917-1948.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with the experience and action of Jewish women in the new Jewish settlement in Palestine (the Yishuv) during the period of Zionist immigration to Palestine, from the last two decades of the nineteenth century until 1948. The wide range of topics concern the experience of East European immigrant women as well as that of traditional Yemenite women, the creative and radical action of the socialist pioneers of the labor movement as well as the liberal feminism of the middle-class women. Though based on scholarly research, this book brings forth women's voices through their private and public writing.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Between Tradition and Change""; ""Through the Eyes of a Settler's Wife: Letters From the Moshava""; ""Literature by Women of the First Aliyah: The Aspiration for Women's Renaissance in Eretz Israel""; ""Yemenite Jewish Women-Between Tradition and Change""; ""Women of the Labor Movement""; ""Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the Winding Road to Sejera""

""The Women's Farm at Kinneret, 1911-19I7: A Solution to the Problem of the Working Woman in the Second Aliyah*"" ""Fragments of Life: From the Diaries of Two Young Women""; ""A Woman Alone: The Artist Ira Jan as Writer in Eretz Yisrael""; ""The Women Workers' Movement: First Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel""; ""From Revolution to Motherhood: The Case of Women in the Kibbutz, 1910-1948""; ""Human Being or Housewife: The Status of Women in the Jewish Working Class Family in Palestine of the 1920's and 1930's""; ""Women's Rights, Women's Spheres""

""On the Way to Equality? The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in the Jewish Yishuv, 1917-1926"" ""The Fringes of the Margin: Women's Organizations in the Civic Sector of the Yishuv""; ""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791496602

0791496600

9780585063232

0585063230

OCLC:

42855593