LEADER 03756nam 22006734a 450 001 9910451825603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-0773-4 010 $a0-8147-0727-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814707739 035 $a(CKB)1000000000484157 035 $a(EBL)865318 035 $a(OCoLC)784884427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185645 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11171777 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185645 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215753 035 $a(PQKB)11487279 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865318 035 $a(OCoLC)194348455 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10943 035 $a(DE-B1597)547738 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814707739 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865318 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210091 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000484157 100 $a20060426d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJewish women pioneering the frontier trail$b[electronic resource] $ea history in the American West /$fJeanne E. Abrams 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-0720-3 311 $a0-8147-0719-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : a view from the West -- From the Old Country to the New Land : "going west" -- Building a foundation -- From generation to generation -- Religious lives of Jewish women in the West -- From "women's work" to working women -- Scaling the ivy walls and into the professions -- Entering the political world -- Conclusion : opening new doors. 330 $aThe image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women?has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail rectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West.In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to ?open new doors? for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, and made distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers.This engaging work?full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women?illuminates the pivotal role these women played in settling America's Western frontier. 606 $aJewish women$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aJewish women$zWest (U.S.)$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen in Judaism$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aJudaism$zWest (U.S.) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJewish women$xHistory. 615 0$aJewish women$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen in Judaism 615 0$aJudaism 676 $a305.48/8924078 700 $aAbrams$b Jeanne E.$f1951-$01026352 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451825603321 996 $aJewish women pioneering the frontier trail$92441225 997 $aUNINA