Gone to another meeting : the National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993 / Faith Rogow ; with a foreword by Joan Bronk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogow, Faith, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Bronk, Joan, writer of foreword.

Series:

Judaic studies series.

Judaic Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Council of Jewish Women--History.

National Council of Jewish Women.

Jewish women--United States--Societies and clubs--History.

Jewish women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 300 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gone to Another Meeting charts the development of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and its impact on both the Jewish Community in the United States and American Society in general. Founded in 1893 by Hannah Greenebaum Solomon, NCJW provided a conduit through which Jewish women's voices could be heard and brought a Jewish voice to America's women's rights movement. NCJW would come to represent both the modernization and renewal of traditional Jewish womanhood. Through its emphasis on motherhood, its adoption of domestic feminism, and its efforts to carve a distinct Jewish niche in the late 19th-century Progressive social reform movement in the largely Christian world of women's clubs, NCJW was instrumental in defining a uniquely American version of Jewish womanhood.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780817389383

0817389385

9780585329123

0585329125

Publisher Number:

heb40237 hdl